Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5

From	Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5
Date	2020-07-29 15:39 +0700
Message-ID	<mailman.240.1596011979.2739.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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    Date:        Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:41:52 -0400
    From:        Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
    Message-ID:  <4099319f-bc5e-a2ef-cfe8-6189df5a44b6@archlinux.org>

  | I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you arguing that
  | *printing* these backslash escapes is valid behavior here, and the
  | reporter has merely misunderstood the shell rules?

Neither I suspect, Dale just didn't notice which backslashes Ralph
meant were the problem - the one in the expansion of $BLA was never
it, it is the others that appeared - which is an obvious bug
(probably something trivial) which I would expect will be quickly fixed.

kre

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Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5 Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> - 2020-07-29 15:39 +0700

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