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Re: [Help-bash] Transform strings with special characters so that the st
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Help-bash] Transform strings with special characters so that the strings don't need to be quoted? |
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Thu, 26 Mar 2015 07:00:39 -0600 |
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On 03/26/2015 06:56 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/25/15 5:42 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 03/25/2015 03:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
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>>>>> printf -v escaped_var %q "$var"
>>>
>>> Fork-free.
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>> But requires bash extensions ('printf -v var' and 'printf %q' are
>> both bashisms not likely to work in other shells)
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> It's help-bash, after all. I don't think people mind bash solutions.
True, but calling it out makes it easier to compare why bash solutions
are nice (the amount of code required to get a solution in portable
shell is so much greater that it should be an obvious choice that bash
extensions are worth relying on).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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