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From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
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Subject: Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5
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    Date:        Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:41:52 -0400
    From:        Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
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  | 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