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Re: Guide, Programming in Makefiles: Why trailing '' in example 3?

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Subject: Re: Guide, Programming in Makefiles: Why trailing '' in example 3?
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 23:50:28 +0200

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:26:36PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
>   printf '%s\n' ${STRING:Q}''
> 
> What is the purpose of the two trailing single quote characters?

Ask yourselve what happens if STRING is empty.

Joerg

References:
- Guide, Programming in Makefiles: Why trailing '' in example 3?
  - From: J. Lewis Muir

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