Re: is it normal that set -x unset commands dont display special chars in the content

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

it just displays the wrong data completly, the special chars cutted off, ..
..

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:28 AM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
wrote:

> i still dont understand, ( you speak more special english than code ), why
> unset wont display the special chars, but then i suppose its not much of a
> bug .. ?
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 1:19 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 2/28/21 6:19 PM, kfm@plushkava.net wrote:
>>
>> >> The check for shell special characters, which results in single
>> quoting,
>> >> comes before whether there are any characters that would require ANSI-C
>> >> quoting. This is not specific to unset.
>> >
>> > In fairness, I don't think it's strictly incorrect to say that the
>> outcome
>> > is different "for" one of two commands used in a trivial example. I was
>> > only attempting to clarify the circumstances that begat the original
>> question.
>>
>> I understand. The point is that it's faulty reasoning to say that it's a
>> difference between two commands when there are more differences than the
>> (builtin) command name itself. It's one of the first rules of
>> troubleshooting: reduce the number of variables between cases.
>>
>> In this case, running `:' and `unset' with the same arguments would have
>> shown that that difference was in how the arguments are treated, not the
>> builtin itself.
>>
>> --
>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>>
>>