>>>>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2015, Michał Górny wrote:
>> + set -f # disable filename
>> expansion in echo arguments
>> echo -e ${DOC_CONTENTS} | fold -s -w 70 \
>> | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' > "${T}"/README.gentoo
> Maybe I'm missing something but is there any reason not to quote
> "${DOC_CONTENTS}" instead of working around the results of not
> quoting it?
IIUC the intention of not quoting it is to normalise whitespace,
especially embedded newlines. Unfortunately, I don't see a good way to
do this differently. Adding another processing step after echo -e is
too late, because newlines expanded from \n must be kept.
Ulrich
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