Re: CI failure on Solaris 11.4

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I don't want to
> > use a raw DEL byte in the test file (as it's hard to type in my text
> > editor), and there isn't a portable Bourne shell way to escape
> > a character AFAIK
> 
> What's wrong with
> 
>   del=`printf '\177'`
>   q='['"$del"']\{0,1\}'
> 
> ?
> 
> Bruno

OK, that works.

I had thought of using `...`, but I was thinking along the lines of

eval `printf 'del=\177'`

and then thought that using eval should be avoided, so I stopped there.

It's probably better to strip the bytes out anyway, as this avoids any
problems with some version grep deciding that it is a binary file and
doing something different with it.