Am 08.08.2011 15:40, schrieb Eric Blake:
> On 08/07/2011 07:20 PM, Sven Köhler wrote:
>> pathconvert() {
>> echo "$1"
>> }
>>
>
>> (There's one issue here: I would like to write echo -- "$1", but echo
>> doesn't understand --. Bummer.)
>
> echo _cannot_ be used to portably echo arbitrary strings. For that, you
> need printf:
>
> pathconvert() {
> printf '%s\n' "$1"
> }
Thanks! I learned something.
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