On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:26:23PM +0400, Alexander Sedov wrote: > xprop prints information in format PROPERTY(STRING) = "escaped string", > which causes problem with repeated Ctrl-F: any non-ascii turns into > \ooo\ooo, this later turns into \\ooo\\ooo, and so on. To de-escape > string, echo -en is used, getting information from xargs -0; without > -0 xargs will try to handle escapes by itself and also do shenanigans > with quotes, which is totally undesired.
Can this be done with printf? ISTR echo -en isn't posix, whereas printf is well defined.
