From: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs•berkeley.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts.
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:03:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18039.1168916633@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1wlv1yeh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
And Junio C Hamano writes:
> We have done this already so it might be too late to raise this
> question, but does everybody have printf?
It's in the Single Unix Spec as the alternative to non-portable
echo uses:
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html#tag_001_014_525
And no one has complained so far...
> > - name=$(echo -n "$f" | tr -c "A-Za-z0-9" ".")
> > + name=$(printf "$f" | tr -c "A-Za-z0-9" ".")
> This should almost be safe as no sane person would have a remote
> whose name is 'foo%s'...
Forgot about that, thanks. It should be printf "%s" "$f".
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-16 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-16 1:31 [PATCH] Replace "echo -n" with printf in shell scripts Jason Riedy
2007-01-16 2:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-16 3:03 ` Jason Riedy [this message]
2007-01-16 3:09 ` Eric Blake
2007-01-17 16:29 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-17 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-17 18:00 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-01-17 18:07 ` Julian Phillips
2007-01-17 20:17 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-18 0:02 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-01-18 0:13 ` Junio C Hamano
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