On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 09:08:03PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 10:53:35 +0200
> From: tlaro...@polynum.com
> Message-ID: <20190721085335.ga...@polynum.com>
>
> | Am I correct? Is it worth a PR?
>
> I believe you are correct, though this is a common problem
> (one shared by dash and bash which makes it very common out
> there in the vastness of the net and so inadvisable to ever
> start a printf format with a '-' ... bash's printf even
> has an option (-v var) to place the output into a variable).
>
> I shall fix it (have fixed it in my sources) but it will take
> a while to get committed as the ATF tests actually test for --
> working as it does in other programs (and that "invalid options"
> cause a usage), and they needs to get cleaned up first.
>
Thank you. For safety, in my scripts, I simply circumvent by a
leading "%c" or "\055"---for the record, I was just rewriting a Perl
script (Samba) as a Bourne shell one and I wanted to keep the output
with this kind of dashes separating lines; that's when I stumbled upon
that.
Best regards,
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