From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve sed portability
Message-ID: <20080612090705.GA1055@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4850DE67.703@isode.com>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:29:27AM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:

>> Because the "$1" could contain character sequences that some 'echo'
>> implementations mangle.
>
> Indeed. If $1 started with -n that might cause problems on some platforms.

It's much worse than that. Any backslash sequence can be interpolated.
4b7cc26 (git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings).

-Peff