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Escaped percent sign in shell escape (bang) command (ed 1.16)


From: Andrew L. Moore
Subject: Escaped percent sign in shell escape (bang) command (ed 1.16)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 21:54:30 -0500
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| Martin Thomsen wrote:
|     printf '%s\n' 'r !date +"% modified on \%F"' ',p' Q | ed -s
|
| outputs
|
|     date +"fil1 modified on \%F"
|     fil1 modified on \2021-07-10
|
| I think the output should contain no backslashes, per POSIX
| documentation. The GNU ed manual would benefit from clarification.

I agree. This is the correct behavior. In Antonio's defense, this was
broken in ed-0.2, which he inherited.

Handling of backslash escapes, in general, and in shell commands in
particular, is tricky. I feel that I got it right in my
implementation. Please check out: https://github.com/slewsys/ed
-AM



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