Re: Nonworking example in info-page

[Paul Eggert]

Ole Tange <address@hidden> writes:

> and then running above. That did not work. Probably because of quotes,
> spaces, < and > in filenames.

Yes, you're right, it was the quotes.

> find . -name '*.gz' -type f -print0 | parallel -0 -j+0 gunzip "<{}" ">{.}"

That would be nice, but it uses the "-print0" and "parallel" features
that are GNU-specific, and we try to keep that part of the manual
portable to any POSIX environment.  Perhaps we need to add a new section
for the GNU stuff, but I installed the following for now, to fix the
immediate problem.

* doc/gzip.texi (Sample): Fix backslash quoting problem.
Problem reported by Ole Tange in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-05/msg00000.html>.
diff --git a/doc/gzip.texi b/doc/gzip.texi
index a6009d2..a7e72b8 100644
--- a/doc/gzip.texi
+++ b/doc/gzip.texi
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ stopping on the first failure:
 find . -name '*
 *' -prune -o -name '*.gz' -type f -print |
   sed "
-    s/'/'\\''/g
+    s/'/'\\\\''/g
     s/^\\(.*\\)\\.gz$/gunzip <'\\1.gz' >'\\1'/
   " |
   sh -e