From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Dima Sorkin <dima@minignu.minidns.net>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au
Subject: Re: evaluation of env variables in DASH
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:42:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9F445B.2090609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aa8woesd.fsf@minignu.minidns.net>
On 10/19/2011 03:24 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote:
> Hi.
> The following DASH behaviour seems buggy to me
The only bug here is your expectations.
>
> -----------------
> $ export A='\n'
> $ echo $A
>
Passing a literal backslash to echo is non-portable. POSIX even says
so. And bash can match dash behavior:
$ (shopt -s xpg_echo; A='\n'; echo -$A-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-19 21:24 evaluation of env variables in DASH Dima Sorkin
2011-10-19 21:42 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2011-10-19 21:58 ` Jilles Tjoelker
2011-10-19 22:13 ` Dima Sorkin
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