Le 28 juil. 2025 à 20:27, Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] a écrit :

On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM Ben Knoble [off-list ref] wrote:

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Le 27 juil. 2025 à 18:02, Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] a écrit :

Simpler:
  printf "$expected_value\0" >expected &&

(Below as well): the shell linter I use does prefer to see

   printf %s\\0 "$var"

to avoid issues with the variable containing format specifiers.

That's a very good point about using "%s"; I should have suggested
that myself. Thanks for the correction.

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(Backslash has to be quoted in double-quotes, too, I think? So I left out the quotes here.)

No, backslash does not need to be escaped in double-quotes. The
literal form `printf "%s\0"` is common enough in Git test scripts, so,
for consistency, that should be the form we recommend in reviews, not
the form lacking quotes, I'd think.

Right; on second thought, shell quotes (mostly) don’t nest like that. Thanks for the catch.