Re: %q with truncating size loses safeness of %q

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: %q with truncating size loses safeness of %q
Date	2020-04-17 11:16 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 03:22:16PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> printf %q with a truncating size will emit partially escaped
> sequence thus losing the safety and composability that %q
> is intended to provide.

So... don't do that.

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Re: %q with truncating size loses safeness of %q Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-17 11:16 -0400

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