On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:09:52AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > printf %s "$MSG" ? > > On my box > $ printf '%s\n' '\n' > \n > $ > > He wants '\n' in $MSG to be expanded, and what you gave doesn't do that. Oh, sorry. That's what I get for not reading his patch carefully. It looks like all of the input is statically included in the test script. While I think it is nice to be defensive, it is probably simplest to just assume there is no '%' in this case (which we can verify by reading the script). -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