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Re: problem with backslash in directory name

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JDJoachim Durchholz <jo@durchholz.org>
Date
Apr 7, 2017, 08:24 UTC
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Am 07.04.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Jeff King:
> Probably it's "read" which does backslash expansion, but nothing else.
> Just grepping git-submodule.sh, some of the "read" calls should probably
> be "read -r"
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/read has this to say:
> Essentially all you need to know about -r is to ALWAYS use it. The
 > exact behavior you get without -r is completely useless even for weird
 > purposes. It basically allows the escaping of input which matches
 > something in IFS, and also escapes line continuations. It's explained
 > pretty well in the POSIX read[1] spec.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/read.html#tag_20_109

(That's the kind of stuff that makes me shy of using shell scripts - always yet another surprise in waiting...)

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  1. Joachim DurchholzApr 7, 2017
  2. Jeff KingApr 7, 2017
  3. Joachim DurchholzApr 7, 2017
  4. Joachim DurchholzApr 7, 2017
  5. Brandon WilliamsApr 7, 2017
  6. Stefan BellerApr 7, 2017
  7. submodule: prevent backslash expantion in submodule namesBrandon Williams, Apr 7, 2017
  8. Joachim DurchholzApr 7, 2017
  9. Jeff KingApr 8, 2017
  10. Joachim DurchholzApr 8, 2017
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