Re: Dash quoting bug?

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:32:55AM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> According to the dash manual, within single quotes, all characters are 
>> treated as literals (except single quote), which appears to agree with 
>> POSIX, so the above behavior seems incorrect.
> We need a patch for the dash manual :)
> Unfortunately according to POSIX we must interpret these escape sequences:
> 12682 SYNOPSIS
> 12683   echo [string ...]
> 12695     The following character sequences shall be recognized
> 12696     within any of the arguments:
> 12703       \n        Write a <newline>.

Thank you for the response and for pointing out this documentation.

> I suggest that you switch over printf for portability.  That is,
> replace all occurances of
> 	echo "string"
> with
> 	printf "%s\n" "string

Unfortunately, in this case, a portability requirement to older 
platforms lacking 'printf' negates the viability of such a solution. As 
it turns out, however, I was able to resolve the issue by eliminating 
the need to emit backslashes, thus altogether side-stepping the problem.

-- ES