GitHub user jwadamson opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/25
fix problems with argument handling of trailing space and sed/echo quirks So this is where I have landed through trial and error on improving the argument handling code. Tested with: mac bsd_sed+bash ubuntu gnu_sed+dash ubuntu gnu_sed+ksh93 ubuntu gnu_sed+zsh We should ask mailing list to test on default Solaris, AIX, and HPUX platforms. If they experience problems due to sed versions, they can test out awk as an esc_tool alternative value. If neither works consistently we can add some bash/zsh/ksh93 detection to use a bashism when available to avoid sed and awk when possible.. Attached is a manual test.sh and test.xml which echos some passed in properties to demonstrate correct handling of special characters and whitespace/newline scenarios. [test.zip](https://github.com/apache/ant/files/536763/test.zip) You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/jwadamson/ant-1 fix-60150_1.9.x Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/25.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #25 ---- commit b5443219ceabe6773eb9f3f47bca7d6c111a0dd2 Author: Jeffrey Adamson <jwadam...@us.ibm.com> Date: 2016-10-10T21:16:27Z fix problems with argument handling of trailing space and sed/echo quirks ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org