From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Armin Kunaschik <megabreit@googlemail.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: t0008 test fails with ksh
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 19:09:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160522000911.GA9676@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr3cwg1ik.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:03:31AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > ... However,
> > the double-quote character ( '"' ) shall not be treated specially
> > within a here-document, except when the double-quote appears within
> > "$()", "``", or "${}".
> >
> > So OK, that sounds like ksh is doing the right thing. But what's that
> > "specially" in the last sentence?
>
> I would say: Just like \X is passed thru as-is without losing \, \"
> is passed thru without losing \, because " is not special, just like
> X is not special.
Yeah, that was my reading, too (sorry, my question was mostly
rhetorical; imagine me reading it in an exaggerated surprised "woah,
what's this?" voice. :) ).
-Peff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-22 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-12 17:53 t0008 test fails with ksh Armin Kunaschik
2016-05-12 18:20 ` Jeff King
2016-05-20 16:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-22 0:09 ` Jeff King [this message]
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