Re: any shell that doesn't expand \t or \n in it's arguments?

From: jwk (_hate_spam_thunder7_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: 30 Mar 2004 17:43:58 GMT

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:31:17 -0500
> In article <slrnc6imuc.7in._hate_spam_thunder7@middle.of.nowhere>,
> jwk <_hate_spam_thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> I have a program that calls a script to print files, both on windows and
>> on unix systems.
>>
>> Because of the windows systems, one argument to the script is like this:
>>
>> \\host\queue
>>
>> Depending on the name of queue, this makes the script on unix go
>> haywire:
>>
>> \x is '\' 'x', but \t becomes '<tab>'
>>
>> is there any way to start a shell which prevents this horrible mess?
>> The only alternative is to rename all my print-queues :-(
>
> AFAIK, none of the common shells automatically translate \t and \n. If
> any translation is done, it's by individual commands, e.g. "echo". They
> generally provide a way to suppress it, or you must escape the
> backslashes (e.g. change \t to \\t before passing the string to the
> command).
>
> If you show the script, perhaps we can provide more detailed guidance.
>
Aha - it's echo then. The faulty part is something like this:

host=`echo $1 | cut -d"\\" -f1`
queue=`echo $1 | cut -d"\\" -f2`

Time to go play with bash and ${param:offset:length}.

Thanks,
Jurriaan 

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