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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:24:17 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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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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read -d '' -r -a DOC_CONTENTS <<<"${DOC_CONTENTS}" |
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This performs word splitting into an array. Then you can do: |
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echo -e "${DOC_CONTENTS[*]}" | ... |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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