From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: POSIX woes in t7810.87: dash bash or bash dash? Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:58:28 +0200 Message-ID: <4DFF19C4.5070003@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 20 11:58:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QYbFd-00047E-Rx for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:58:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753353Ab1FTJ6b (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:58:31 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:39144 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753169Ab1FTJ6a (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:58:30 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BB7206AE for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:58:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:58:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=KfnySvQYQkOckB+bihS8IOXMYpQ=; b=Ec5gN/IdokaPMbrEZ84HHuxrYCIppA1CXaASL3NQc6WtjsUoUApzJAvvgXGtDoMA0Zo7UwBQtmbpk5VEmO/gkh16ICVyfrMKeaffxgj93GW4D5yp7090s8rFeNA2mKDcUipgulzf3eyZTlEjaDH5yaOd/QK7GbKskrEroJGiDb8= X-Sasl-enc: c6J9BLIf1OJJgRKDamo2W8UeGK+l2f7GSc+STYqSp+kp 1308563910 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB0DC402B59 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:58:29 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: GNU bash, Version 4.2.10(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu): echo "a\"b\n\"c" a"b\n"c dash-0.5.6: echo "a\"b\n\"c" a"b "c t7810.87 breaks with dash because of this. Escaping the \n does not make the test work with both either. So I'd like to know which one's right and (independently) how to make it work for both... Cheers, Michael