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Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement

From Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement
Date 2014-03-06 20:48 +0100
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> Using some dummy input files derived from elsewhere in this thread and a
> Makefile modelled on the above fragment, I'm seeing inconsistent results
> when make invokes different versions of bash (and bash-as-/bin/sh).

Thanks for your interest and feedback.

Would you like to tell a bit more about the bash versions you try out?


> Moving the shell substitution with escape expansions out of the double-
> quoted string seems to fix this.

I hoped that I could avoid an intermediate variable assignment. I am surprised
that I might stumble on a portability issue here.

Regards,
Markus

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Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 14:00 +0100
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2014-03-02 15:49 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 08:38 +0100
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-02 16:52 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 17:53 +0000
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 20:27 +0000
        Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 16:17 +0000
          Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-03 17:44 +0000
            Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2014-03-04 13:30 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 20:50 +0100
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 16:52 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 09:24 +0100
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 12:55 +0100
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-03 17:02 +0000
        Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-06 12:02 +0100
          Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-06 18:51 +0000
            Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-06 20:48 +0100
              Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-06 22:59 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-07 06:38 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-07 13:33 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 15:08 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-07 11:23 +0100
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 14:43 +0000
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-07 17:23 +0100
                Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-07 19:53 +0000
                Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion (was: Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement) dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-08 12:26 +0000
                Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion (was: Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-08 20:05 +0000
                Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-03-09 03:48 +0000
                Re: Bash 4.3.0 escape expansion dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-09 13:21 +0000
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 18:11 +0000
    Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-02 20:08 +0100
      Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-02 20:35 +0000
        Re: Which content should be escaped? Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2014-03-03 10:30 +0100
          Re: Which content should be escaped? dave.gma+news002@googlemail.com.invalid (Dave Sines) - 2014-03-04 14:04 +0000
            Re: Which content should be escaped? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-04 17:32 +0000
  Re: Escaping of line breaks for text replacement Siri Cruz <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-07 02:47 -0800

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