On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 10:31:18PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:15:05 +0200
> From: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> | For safety, in my scripts, I simply circumvent by a
> | leading "%c" or "\055"
>
> I'd suggest %s (with a '' arg) (even %.0s to make it blatant)
> as a clearer way to show what is happening
>
> printf %s---\\n ''
You are right: the whole result is clearer than "deporting" a dash as
an argument. I will follow this pattern.
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