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Re: \c-handling in $'-strings

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On 9/1/15 6:46 PM, Helmut Karlowski wrote:

> Do you refer to the table titled "Circumflex Control Characters in stty"?
> 
> It states for example:
> 
> ?    <DEL>

Yeah, that's a problem.  I've fixed that.

> 
> Running:
> 
> echo $'\c?' |od -a
> echo $'\c[\c\\c]\c^\c_\c?' |od -a
> 
> bash prints:
> 
> 0000000  us  nl
> 0000002
> 0000000 esc  fs   c   ]  rs  us  us  nl
> 
> I'd expect:
> 
> 0000000 del  nl
> 0000002
> 0000000 esc  fs  gs  rs  us del  nl
> 
> Also the ] in the output seems wrong, looks it gets the \\ wrong, though
> ksh93 does this also.

The Posix standardization of $'...' requires that the character after the
`\c' honor backslash escaping.  Since the character becomes \c\\, the
subsequent `c' and `]' are literals.

Chet

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\c-handling in $'-strings "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> - 2015-08-29 00:28 +0100
  Re: \c-handling in $'-strings Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-08-31 10:17 -0400
    Re: \c-handling in $'-strings "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> - 2015-09-01 23:46 +0100
      Re: \c-handling in $'-strings Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-09-02 09:19 -0400
        Re: \c-handling in $'-strings "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> - 2015-09-02 22:10 +0100
          Re: \c-handling in $'-strings Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2015-09-02 15:44 -0600
          Re: \c-handling in $'-strings Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-09-03 09:58 -0400

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