Re: Broken substitution

[Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 07/29/2009 05:37 PM, David Dillow wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 17:13 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
>> Upstream dhclient writes out \032 instead of a space if multiple search
>> domains are specified in dhcpd.conf.  It has been this way for years.
>> Debian and Fedora have worked around this by doing the below bash
>> substitution.  Upstream has rejected fixing this in dhclient for
>> different reasons.
>>
>> The substitution below works on bash but not dash.
>>
>> Dillow suggested this method that will work with bash and dash.
>> Unfortunately I now noticed that this seems to remove the space between
>> search domain entries.
>
> What are you talking about?
>
> # dash
> $ t="1 2"
> $ printf "$t"
> 1 2$
>

It handles an actual space just fine.  But not the broken \032 space 
from dhclient.

Warren
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