Re: Bug: git-rebase goofs up \n in commit messages

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: May 26, 2007, 01:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20070526011036.GA4169@gondor.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20070526004028.GA8940@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:40:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> 
> 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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