Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Bug Report concerning backslash in bash5
Date	2020-07-29 09:30 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID	<mailman.251.1596029468.2739.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 7/28/20 6:42 PM, Ralph Beckmann wrote:
> Hello GNU team,
> 
> I found this misbehaviour in Bash 5 (e.g. GNU bash, version
> 5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)):
> 
> $ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
> \x/1\.2/\y/
> 
> I don't see any reasonable reason for the generated backslashes here.

Thanks for the report. This issue was a product of the bash-5.0 changes to
support the POSIX standard language concerning backslashes in shell
patterns. It is fixed in the devel branch and in bash-5.1-alpha.

Chet


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