Re: MODULES.html.sh broken - unterminated substitute pattern

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Replace foo=` ... sed -e COMPLICATED ... ` with
> bar=COMPLICATED; foo=` ... sed -e "$bar" ... ` when COMPLICATED
> contains (possibly-quoted) backslashes.

Thanks, Paul. Nowadays I try to avoid backslashes inside backquote.
Correctly parsing backslashes inside backquote (and possibly inside
single-quote and possibly inside double-quote inside or outside the
double-quote!) is quite tricky [1]. Hardly anyone knows the rules.
It was too tempting, back then in 2003, to use bashisms.

Bruno

[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=blob;f=gettext-tools/src/x-sh.c;hb=HEAD#l333
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