On 09/16/2011 01:22 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
$ bash -c 't="a b\"'\''}\\"; echo "${a-$t}"' b c"'}\I had a double take upon reading this. I think the output for all three of those example commands should read a b"'}\ rather than b c"'}\
Thanks for the report. I'm pushing this to fix it (I actually changed the input of $t to start with 'b c' rather than fixing the output, so that the use of $a doesn't overlap with the output).
From 2a9b772222423b28ad741ab74407f680d2caaadd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:37:38 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] docs: fix typo in shell example * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo. * THANKS: Update. Reported by Nick Bowler. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]> --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ THANKS | 1 + doc/autoconf.texi | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 01df9ad..76b283c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2011-09-16 Eric Blake <[email protected]> + + docs: fix typo in shell example + * doc/autoconf.texi (Shell Substitutions): Fix typo. + * THANKS: Update. + Reported by Nick Bowler. + 2011-09-14 Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]> docs: more details about make VPATH rewriting woes diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 51188aa..867c0d8 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 3d99012..f202c10 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -15942,11 +15942,11 @@ Shell Substitutions the expression needing quoting. @example -$ @kbd{/bin/sh -c 't="a b\"'\''@}\\"; echo "$@{a-$t@}"'} +$ @kbd{/bin/sh -c 't="b c\"'\''@}\\"; echo "$@{a-$t@}"'} b c"'@}\ -$ @kbd{ksh -c 't="a b\"'\''@}\\"; echo "$@{a-$t@}"'} +$ @kbd{ksh -c 't="b c\"'\''@}\\"; echo "$@{a-$t@}"'} b c"'@}\ -$ @kbd{bash -c 't="a b\"'\''@}\\"; echo "$@{a-$t@}"'} +$ @kbd{bash -c 't="b c\"'\''@}\\"; echo "$@{a-$t@}"'} b c"'@}\ @end example -- 1.7.4.4 -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
