In Bug 207, bernhardf writes:

proper escape strings in usage.h

diff --git a/include/usage.h b/include/usage.h
index 940d0de..6d594dc 100644 (file)
--- a/include/usage.h
+++ b/include/usage.h
@@ -523,13 +523,13 @@
        "\t-e\tinterpret backslash-escaped characters (i.e., \\t=tab)\n" \
        "\t-E\tdisable interpretation of backslash-escaped characters")
 #define echo_example_usage \
-       "$ echo "Erik is cool"\n" \
+       "$ echo \"Erik is cool\"\n" \
        "Erik is cool\n" \
-       USAGE_FANCY_ECHO("$  echo -e "Erik\\nis\\ncool"\n" \
+       USAGE_FANCY_ECHO("$  echo -e \"Erik\\nis\\ncool\"\n" \
        "Erik\n" \
        "is\n" \
        "cool\n" \
-       "$ echo "Erik\\nis\\ncool"\n" \
+       "$ echo \"Erik\\nis\\ncool\"\n" \
        "Erik\\nis\\ncool\n")
 
 #define env_trivial_usage \
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@
         "$ cat getopt.test\n" \
         "#!/bin/sh\n" \
         "GETOPT=`getopt -o ab:c:: --long a-long,b-long:,c-long:: \\\n" \
-        "       -n 'example.busybox' -- "$@"`\n" \
+        "       -n 'example.busybox' -- \"$@\"`\n" \
         "if [ $? != 0 ] ; then  exit 1 ; fi\n" \
         "eval set -- "$GETOPT"\n" \
         "while true ; do\n" \
@@ -1948,7 +1948,7 @@
        "Formats and prints ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT,\n" \
        "Where FORMAT controls the output exactly as in C printf."
 #define printf_example_usage \
-       "$ printf "Val=%d\\n" 5\n" \
+       "$ printf \"Val=%d\\n\" 5\n" \
        "Val=5\n"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SELINUX