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[v2] thunderbird-patch-inline: avoid bashism

Message ID 20250210234947.1317056-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 59d26bd9619c1bb37b1ccb4a93a71221bec46e12
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Series [v2] thunderbird-patch-inline: avoid bashism | expand

Commit Message

brian m. carlson Feb. 10, 2025, 11:49 p.m. UTC
The use of "echo -e" is not portable and not specified by POSIX.  dash
does not support any options except "-n", and so this script will not
work on operating systems which use that as /bin/sh.

Fortunately, the solution is easy: switch to printf(1), which is
specified by POSIX and allows the escape sequences we want to use.  This
will allow the script to work with any POSIX shell.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
---
 contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Changes from v1:
* Add a missing newline.

I'll note that I could have just written '%s\n' here, but I think this
is a little easier to reason about, so I didn't.

Comments

Junio C Hamano Feb. 11, 2025, 12:19 a.m. UTC | #1
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I'll note that I could have just written '%s\n' here, but I think this
> is a little easier to reason about, so I didn't.

Yes, I actually was wondering why you didn't, as I find the "short
format string makes the command iterate over its arguments" easier
to understand, than how you wrote it.  Either is fine, but that
would also have been shorter.

> diff --git a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> index 1053872eea..fdcc948352 100755
> --- a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> +++ b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ BODY=$(sed -e "1,/${SEP}/d" $1)
>  CMT_MSG=$(sed -e '1,/^$/d' -e '/^---$/,$d' "${PATCH}")
>  DIFF=$(sed -e '1,/^---$/d' "${PATCH}")
>  
> -CCS=$(echo -e "$CMT_MSG\n$HEADERS" | sed -n -e 's/^Cc: \(.*\)$/\1,/gp' \
> +CCS=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$CMT_MSG" "$HEADERS" | sed -n -e 's/^Cc: \(.*\)$/\1,/gp' \
>  	-e 's/^Signed-off-by: \(.*\)/\1,/gp')
>  
>  echo "$SUBJECT" > $1
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diff --git a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
index 1053872eea..fdcc948352 100755
--- a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
+++ b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@  BODY=$(sed -e "1,/${SEP}/d" $1)
 CMT_MSG=$(sed -e '1,/^$/d' -e '/^---$/,$d' "${PATCH}")
 DIFF=$(sed -e '1,/^---$/d' "${PATCH}")
 
-CCS=$(echo -e "$CMT_MSG\n$HEADERS" | sed -n -e 's/^Cc: \(.*\)$/\1,/gp' \
+CCS=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$CMT_MSG" "$HEADERS" | sed -n -e 's/^Cc: \(.*\)$/\1,/gp' \
 	-e 's/^Signed-off-by: \(.*\)/\1,/gp')
 
 echo "$SUBJECT" > $1