Hi Viktor,
> > ['p', 'r', 'i', 'n', 't', 'f', ' ', "'", 'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o',
> > '\\', '"', '\\', 'n', "'"]
...
> > It's the «\\» before the «\"» causing the problem; it's
> > unspecified. One ends up with printf seeing «\"» and my printf(1p)
> > says
> >
> > The interpretation of a <backslash> followed by any other
> > sequence of characters is unspecified.
> >
> > Without it, I get consistent results.
> >
> > $ bash -c "printf 'Hello\"\n'"
> > Hello"
> > $ bash -c "printf 'Hello\"\n'" | sha1sum
> > f8edb41250edb3fea02ea9cb68488b123773b559 -
> > $ dash -c "printf 'Hello\"\n'" | sha1sum
> > f8edb41250edb3fea02ea9cb68488b123773b559 -
>
> Using b/dash -c ".." to switch shell is very misleading. Inside
> double-quotes escaped characters loose their backslashes!
Well, that's not quite true, as I showed above.
> Please try with one file each shell:
Or just paste this line into each shell. It's from the Python list
above.
printf 'Hello\"\n'
It shows the same problem. The correct line to paste is
printf 'Hello"\n'
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Cheers, Ralph.
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