On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 02:27:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > No, I meant would the shell, while interpolating a double-quoted string > "\n", always preserve the string and pass the backslash and 'n' to > printf? Clearly \\ and \" get interpolated, but I don't know the rules > for "unrecognized" backslash sequences. Yep. Section 2.2.3 says that the backslash within double quotes will only serve as an escape character for $, `, ", \ and <newline>. Of course, you can always use a single quote instead, i.e., printf '%s\n' "$VAR" Then there can be no doubt :) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
