Chris Ridd schrieb: > On Solaris /usr/bin/sed apparently fails to process input that doesn't > end in a \n. Consequently constructs like > > re=$(printf '%s' foo | sed -e 's/bar/BAR/g' $) > > cause re to be set to the empty string. So does /usr/bin/sed of AIX 4.3! > @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ resolve_relative_url () > module_name() > { > # Do we have "submodule.<something>.path = $1" defined in .gitmodules file? > - re=$(printf '%s' "$1" | sed -e 's/[].[^$\\*]/\\&/g') > + re=$(printf "%s\n" "$1" | sed -e 's/[].[^$\\*]/\\&/g') You change sq into dq. Is this not dangerous? Shouldn't backslash-en be hidden from the shell so that printf can interpret it? > name=$( git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' | > sed -n -e 's|^submodule\.\(.*\)\.path '"$re"'$|\1|p' ) I trust you have tested this. But I wonder whether this leaves a stray newline in $re that gets in the way inside the sed expression... > test -z "$name" && -- Hannes -- 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