echoing was only done in this bug report to give the use case. I actually wrote the file manually and had the same problem.
This problem came up in docker as reported in this issue: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/2403 On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 10/29/2013 02:41 PM, Nicolas Dudebout wrote: > > The `--files-from` (`-T`) option does not properly work in 1.27 but was > > properly working in 1.26. It fails in the presence of escaped characters > as > > described in the following code snippet: > > > > ``` > > mkdir test > > cd test > > echo something > foo-bar > > echo 'foo\\055bar' > baz > > echo'ing a backslash is non-portable. Are you sure that you are getting > the contents you intended? To be portable, use printf(1) instead of > echo(1) whenever \ is involved. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >
