Chet Ramey:
> On 7/15/19 6:19 PM, astian wrote:
>
>>> I doubt it makes any difference to the timing, which I think
>>> Chet has already answered, but it is worth pointing out that these
>>> two commands ...
>>>
>>> printf '%s\n' "`printf %s "$i"`"
>>> printf
On 7/16/19 3:03 PM, astian wrote:
> Ah, thanks for the clarification. I wonder if the excerpt below (particularly
> the last sentence) would be the relevant wording of POSIX, i.e. that some
> shells might interpret the command as the concatenation of a double-quoted
> string, the unquoted $i, and
On 7/15/19 6:19 PM, astian wrote:
>> I doubt it makes any difference to the timing, which I think
>> Chet has already answered, but it is worth pointing out that these
>> two commands ...
>>
>> printf '%s\n' "`printf %s "$i"`"
>> printf '%s\n' "$(printf %s
Robert Elz:
> Date:Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:21:00 +
> From:astian
> Message-ID:
>
> I doubt it makes any difference to the timing, which I think
> Chet has already answered, but it is worth pointing out that these
> two commands ...
>
> printf '
