severity 504292 wishlist thanks Hi,
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 16:03 +0100, jre-phoenix wrote: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh: > $'...' is a bashism to expand escape sequences; for example, $'\t' > expands to a horizontal tab. Use "$(printf '\t')" etc. instead. > > Indeed $'...' only works with bash, but fails with dash. Thanks for the report. We are aware of the $'' bashism - indeed checkbashisms contains a commented-out check for it. The reason the check is disabled is that when it and a similar check for $"" were tested against the wide range of shell scripts available in Debian, they produced a high level of false positives and were disabled in devscripts 2.10.30, only one package after having been introduced. If a check can be found which reliably flags the use of $'' for printing strings without many (preferably any, but that's not always possible) false positives than I'd happily look at including it. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
