No subject

$ smbtar -v -s testserver -x testshare -d testdir
server    is testserver
share     is testshare	estdir
tar args  is 
tape      is tar.out
blocksize is 

<snip>

So the 'share' output is mangled when /bin/sh = dash.

Or is this not what you meant?

> Furthermore, this is in a code path is part of an option to a rarely used
> shell script.

Agreed, but that just makes it a very, very low priority bug, not a non-bug.
:)

> With my upstream hat on, I would rather avoid putting this in since we
> don't use printf in any of our other shell scripts.

Well, printf is part of POSIX; while that's no guarantee, it doesn't seem to
make it *less* portable than this use of echo...

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