Re: Minor xtrace inaccuracy

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:43:33 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In _arguments at line 398 is this:
> 
> if [[ "$action" = \ # ]]; then
> 
> This is printed by xtrace as:
> 
> [[ '' ==  # ]]
> 
> The quoting of the space character is lost.

The stuff after the "=" is output specially to try to make the
difference between special and unspecial characters different.
Whitespace needs to be special.  This is a bit ad hoc, but that seems to
be inevitable in this case.  It doesn't handle non-printing characters
either, but as far as I can see quotedzputs() doesn't either.  (There
appear to be too many different ways of getting quoted output in the
shell source.)

diff --git a/Src/exec.c b/Src/exec.c
index 1c44565..de1b484 100644
--- a/Src/exec.c
+++ b/Src/exec.c
@@ -1845,9 +1845,22 @@ quote_tokenized_output(char *str, FILE *file)
 	case '*':
 	case '?':
 	case '$':
+	case ' ':
 	    putc('\\', file);
 	    break;
 
+	case '\t':
+	    fputs("$'\\t'", file);
+	    continue;
+
+	case '\n':
+	    fputs("$'\\n'", file);
+	    continue;
+
+	case '\r':
+	    fputs("$'\\r'", file);
+	    continue;
+
 	case '=':
 	    if (s == str)
 		putc('\\', file);

pws