On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:36:05AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> ck\slash is not \x<xdigit> sequence, so escape is unnecessary
> >
> > Note that \\server\path is pretty common for cifs and use \x5c
> > for all '\' will make the findmnt output unreadable in many cases.
> > IMHO is better to be "smart" and use escape sequences only when it's
> > really necessary.
>
> Better for humans, but awkward for scripts to parse.
> What I was thinking was perhaps --raw or -P would
> do unconditional escaping of '\' so unescaping can be
> done with just `printf %b`?
Good point. Fixed, all '\' will be replaced with \x5c.
> With the conditional escaping you'd have to do something like:
>
> unmangle() {
> printf '%b' $(
> sed '
> s/\\\([^x]\)/\\x5c\1/g;
> s/\\\(x[^0-9a-f]\)/\\x5c\1/g;
> s/\\\(x[0-9a-f][^0-9a-f]\)/\\x5c\1/g;
> '
> )
> }
ugly, I see, let's use printf '%b' without the sed stuff. Thanks.
Karel
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