On 11/11/2011 03:26 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > $ bash -c "printf '\\x81'" | od -t x1
The next revision of POSIX (code-named Issue 8; POSIX 2008 is Issue 7) will require support for $'\xXX', but you are correct that POSIX does not require 'printf \xXX'. So we should definitely fix this one. > > While at it, let me also fix a bashism (while avoiding backslashes inside > backquote). Sorry, that one seems spurious. The grep test framework is borrowing from gnulib's tests/init.sh, which should already be re-exec'ing under a shell that supports $(). -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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