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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Szekeres Istvan <szekeres@iii.hu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 11:10:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070526011036.GA4169@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070526004028.GA8940@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:40:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> Hmm. It even happens with this:
> 
> bash$ export test=$(echo foo \\n bar)
> bash$ dash
> dash$ echo $test
> foo
>  bar
> 
> I'm not sure what the best workaround is.  I am cc'ing Herbert Xu to see
> if he has any helpful comments.

If you need to echo something that may have escapes in it, the portable
way to do it is

printf '%s\n' "$test"

Cheers,
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-26  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25 21:11 Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages Szekeres Istvan
2007-05-26  0:40 ` Jeff King
2007-05-26  1:10   ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2007-05-26  3:42     ` Jeff King
2007-05-26  3:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-26  4:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-26  6:07         ` Jeff King
2007-05-26  6:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-26  6:19           ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-26  6:27             ` Jeff King
2007-05-26  7:38               ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-26  7:47                 ` Jeff King
2007-05-26  7:47           ` Junio C Hamano

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