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

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: %q with truncating size loses safeness of %q
Date	2020-04-19 15:40 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 4/17/20 6:37 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

> This happens only because of the cheap way we (and I presume you)
> implement things - in any rational scheme, it would take the precision
> chars from the source string, and then quote them.

Nobody, including POSIX, is rational, then.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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