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Re: [PATCH] fix portability issues with $ in double quotes

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 27, 2010, 19:16 UTC
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Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 01/26/2010 11:53 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> The instances you changed look good. I didn't check whether you missed
>> some. Was this some sort of mechanical change?
>
> Not really mechanical. I just grepped for sed and grep expressions and
> then went through the results by hand looking for unescaped dollar
> signs.

Thanks; with this (and my earlier rant on bash refusing to redirect with 'cmd <$variable' when $variable has $IFS character and is not quoted), the result seem to make my OpenBSD build pass all the tests ;-)

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