# HG changeset patch
# User Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
# Date 1551017904 -3600
# Node ID 19988ebda9fa4c0ba815c84083cd7ea8324a0a2f
# Parent  dd30d6eb93bd6b9d4a4a34097af330aed4420aea
relocatable-prog: Improve verbose output.

* build-aux/install-reloc (func_verbose): Escape characters that would
be interpreted by the shell.

diff -r dd30d6eb93bd -r 19988ebda9fa ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Sun Feb 24 11:59:48 2019 +0100
+++ b/ChangeLog	Sun Feb 24 15:18:24 2019 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2019-02-24  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	relocatable-prog: Improve verbose output.
+	* build-aux/install-reloc (func_verbose): Escape characters that would
+	be interpreted by the shell.
+
 2019-02-24  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	stat, lstat: Fix conflict with relocatable-prog-wrapper module.
diff -r dd30d6eb93bd -r 19988ebda9fa build-aux/install-reloc
--- a/build-aux/install-reloc	Sun Feb 24 11:59:48 2019 +0100
+++ b/build-aux/install-reloc	Sun Feb 24 15:18:24 2019 +0100
@@ -208,7 +208,9 @@
 # Outputs a command and runs it.
 func_verbose ()
 {
-  echo "$@"
+  # Make it easy to copy&paste the printed command into a shell in most cases,
+  # by escaping '\\', '"', and '$'. This is not perfect, just good enough.
+  echo "$@" | sed -e 's/\([\\"$]\)/\\\1/g'
   "$@"
 }