On 3/14/26 9:09 AM, Anshuman Khanna wrote:

In Bash Builtin Commands
<https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bash-Builtin-Commands>
section, in the subsection talking about *printf*, there is the following
paragraph:
%q

Causes printf to output the corresponding argument in a format that can be
reused as shell input. %q and %QP use the ANSI-C quoting style (see ANSI-C

Thanks for the report.

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