Re: quotearg: shell escape issue with single quote

[Pádraig Brady]

On 31/03/2024 22:02, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > If a string starts with a sequence that requires $'' quoting followed
> > > by a \' and then another charactrer requiring $'' quoting, the '$' at
> > > the start of the quoted string ends up missing:
> > >
> > >       $ env printf '%q\n' $'\1\'\2'
> > >       '\001'\'''$'\002'
> >
> > Indeed that is a bug.
> > I'll be able to have a look at this tomorrow.
>
> The '$' at the beginning is only missing in specific cases:
>
> $ ./printf '%q\n' $'\1\'\2'
> '\001'\'''$'\002'
> $ ./printf '%q\n' $'a\1\'\2'
> '''a'$'\001'\'''$'\002'
> $ ./printf '%q\n' $'\1\'\2x'
> ''$'\001'\'''$'\002''x'
>
> Also, let me apply some documentation improvement to the .h file (attached).

The attached should fix this issue.

cheers,
Pádraig

0001-quotearg-fix-shell-escape-quoting-with-single-quotes.patch
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