From: Joachim Durchholz <jo@durchholz.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:24:14 GMT
Subject: Re: problem with backslash in directory name
Message-ID: <06bad45d-ad0b-aafe-47e8-172e44ab69cc@durchholz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20170407063057.yjbqavu4uiipslpc@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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...)