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Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion)

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From L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
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Subject Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion)
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On 2019/12/06 14:14, Chet Ramey wrote:

Seems very hard to print out that backquote though.  Closest I got
was bash converting it to "''":

>  read -r -a a< <(printf "%q " {Z..a})
>  my -p a
declare -a a=([0]="Z" [1]="\\[" [2]="''" [3]="\\]" [4]="\\^" [5]="_" 
[6]="\\\`" [7]="a")

#2 is where backslash would be and has been transliterated to the pair
of single quotes.  Guess "\\\\" was too messy looking?


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Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion) L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2019-12-12 11:43 -0800

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