From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 23:24:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/15] help: move list_config_help to builtin/help
Message-ID: <xmqq36beqdez.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRDbOyDQm6wx7+fZoKDfehLjkPc3qenR5Mhc8OkeFJqbw@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 5:58 PM Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 08:35:33AM +0700, Danh Doan wrote:
>> > -     while read line
>> > -     do
>> > -             echo "  \"$line\","
>> > -     done
>> > +     sed 's/^/       "/; s/$/",/'
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. You're right that I didn't look into the
>> contents of this script much, because I was just moving it; I modified
>> your sed expression slightly so it performs just one operation:
>>
>>   sed 's/^.*$/    "\0",/'
>
> This isn't portable and won't work with 'sed' from BSD lineage,
> including Mac OS. More portable would be:
>
>     sed 's/^\(.*\)$/    "\1",/'

Or just replace Emily's \0 with &; that should be in POSIX.