Re: two small bugs in the shell

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: > >and the same applies to echo > > Busybox echo follows GNU conventions for escape handling rather than > POSIX. Is that a good thing ? ___ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net

[PATCH] printf: short-circuit output when argument to %b includes \c

printf wasn't correctly handling \c in an argument to the %b format specifier. printf %bXX OK\\c returned 'OK\cXX' rather than the expected 'OK'. Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston --- coreutils/printf.c | 12 +--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: two small bugs in the shell

Trek wrote: > $ busybox sh -c 's=OK\\n; echo "${s%%\\n*}"' > OK\ This is fixed in 1.24 and git master. > $ busybox sh -c 'printf %b OK\\c' > OK\c This is a problem with printf. Patch to follow. >and the same applies to echo Busybox echo follows GNU conventions for escape handling rather