Bug#754057: perl: erroneous quoting in Makefile.SH

[Niko Tyni]

Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124343

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:49:31PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:30:20AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> >  echo "$1" | sed 's/\([^a-zA-Z0-9.:_\-\/]\)/\\\1/g' ;;

> (My, what a mess.)

> while the suggested 's/\([^a-zA-Z0-9.:_\/-]\)/\\\1/g'
> would quote characters that are
> 
>  - not alphanumeric
>  - not one of '.', ':', '_', '\', '/', or '-'
> 
> which is probably what was intended here.

Heh, the backslash probably *should* be quoted.
So my suggestion is

 echo "$1" | sed 's/\([^a-zA-Z0-9.:_/-]\)/\\\1/g'

which I've just forwarded upstream as [perl #124343]
-- 
Niko