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Re: libstdc++ configure time
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:59:59AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2001, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > In most cases we'll be able to just change \ to @ in the echo text
> > and use tr to revert the change.
>
> But remember that you can't use echo to feed to some other program the
> string whose backslashes you want to transform in something else.
Um, could you unpack that a bit? RTH's script does things like
echo '@' | tr '@' '\'
no backslashes in echo here...
zw