On 05/24/2013 07:38 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> +++ b/scripts/extract-vsssdk-headers >> @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ >> +#! /bin/bash >> +
>> +MAGIC=$'\xd0\xcf\x11\xe0\xa1\xb1\x1a\xe1' > > Can't help mentioning the following portable (alas, octal) equivalent :) > > MAGIC=$(printf '%b' '\0320\0317\0021\0340\0241\0261\0032\0341') Yeah, but as long as the she-bang is (correctly) requiring bash, we might as well use the full power of bash. Also, Issue 8 of POSIX will be mandating $'' handling (but it could be several years before Issue 8 becomes a standard, compared to Issue 7 [aka POSIX 2008] just barely released its first technical corrigendum [aka POSIX 2013]). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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