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