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From: "Sven Köhler" <sven.koehler@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j1ts1l$um4$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3FE767.7030208@redhat.com>

Am 08.08.2011 15:40, schrieb Eric Blake:
> On 08/07/2011 07:20 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:
>> pathconvert() {
>>    echo "$1"
>> }
>>
> 
>> (There's one issue here: I would like to write echo -- "$1", but echo
>> doesn't understand --. Bummer.)
> 
> echo _cannot_ be used to portably echo arbitrary strings.  For that, you
> need printf:
> 
> pathconvert() {
>   printf '%s\n' "$1"
> }

Thanks! I learned something.


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      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-29 19:15 Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 19:45 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-08-01  6:40   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 19:47 ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-01  6:45   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-07-29 20:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-30 12:20   ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-01  6:50     ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-01  7:28       ` Csaba Raduly
2011-08-02 11:58         ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 12:36           ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-05 16:05       ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-08  1:16     ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08  2:07       ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-08 22:17         ` Gary Johnson
2011-08-08  8:20       ` Andrey Repin
2011-08-08  9:11         ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 14:27           ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-01  7:00   ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-01  7:44     ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-08-02 12:11       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 12:23       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 14:37         ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-08-01  9:21     ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-08-02 12:25       ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-08-02 15:41         ` Eliot Moss
2011-08-02 20:05           ` Thorsten Kampe
2011-08-02 20:45             ` Christopher Faylor
2011-08-03 16:23             ` Andy Hall
2011-08-08  1:20         ` Sven Köhler
2011-08-08 13:41           ` Eric Blake
2011-08-10 12:03             ` Sven Köhler [this message]

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