On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:38:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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 :) Right, I wasn't sure if the single quotes were necessary, but it looks like Junio's version (with doublequotes) is also fine according to POSIX. Thanks again. -Peff - 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
