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> Le 28 juil. 2025 à 20:27, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> a écrit :
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Le 27 juil. 2025 à 18:02, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> a écrit :
>>> Simpler:
>>> printf "$expected_value\0" >expected &&
>>
>> (Below as well): the shell linter I use does prefer to see
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>> printf %s\\0 "$var"
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>> to avoid issues with the variable containing format specifiers.
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> That's a very good point about using "%s"; I should have suggested
> that myself. Thanks for the correction.
>
>> (Backslash has to be quoted in double-quotes, too, I think? So I left out the quotes here.)
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> No, backslash does not need to be escaped in double-quotes. The
> literal form `printf "%s\0"` is common enough in Git test scripts, so,
> for consistency, that should be the form we recommend in reviews, not
> the form lacking quotes, I'd think.
Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>