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

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: May 26, 2007, 07:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20070526073855.GA6395@gondor.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <20070526062748.GA21229@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 02:27:48AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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> 
> No, I meant would the shell, while interpolating a double-quoted string
> "\n", always preserve the string and pass the backslash and 'n' to
> printf?  Clearly \\ and \" get interpolated, but I don't know the rules
> for "unrecognized" backslash sequences.

Yep. Section 2.2.3 says that the backslash within double quotes will only serve as an escape character for $, `, ", \ and <newline>. Of course, you can always use a single quote instead, i.e.,

printf '%s\n' "$VAR"

Then there can be no doubt :)

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