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Re: problem with backslash in directory name

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 7, 2017, 06:30 UTC
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:12:49AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
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> So... something inside "git submodule add" is replacing the \b with a
> backspace control code.
> [...]
> Whatever that "something" is, it is not doing shell expansion, otherwise it
> would have started an interactive calculator session.

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" (I also don't know how some of those loops would cope with a submodule name that needed quoting).

-Peff
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  5. Brandon WilliamsApr 7, 2017
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  7. submodule: prevent backslash expantion in submodule namesBrandon Williams, Apr 7, 2017
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