Re: [groff] 1.22.4.rc4 - Final RC before official 1.22.4

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 07:17:59PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> Ralph Corderoy wrote on Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 11:28:40AM +0000:
> > Ingo:
> >> Ralph:
> >>> Ingo:
> >>>> Ralph:
> 
[...]

> The printf(1) utility is already used in
> 
>  * Makefile.in (5 places)
>  * bootstrap (8 places)
>  * build-aux (10 places in multiple scripts)
>  * configure (several places)
> 
[...]
> >>  .  pso sh -c \
> >>         "printf '%s' '.ds *f ' ; \
> >>          ls \\*[fontpath]/dev\*[.T] \
> >> -        | tr '[:cntrl:]' '[ *32]'"
> >> +        | tr '\\\\n' ' '"
> >>  .  \"     This dummy line is necessary; the preceding line eats it.
> 

  For the record.

  Avoid unnecessary output (files contrib/hdtbl/examples/fonts_[nx].in).

     ls \\*[fontpath]/dev\*[.T] \
     | tr '[:cntrl:]' '[ *32]'"

becomes

  cd \\*[fontpath]/dev\*[.T] ; \
  printf '%s ' * "

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Bjarni I. Gislason