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| From | Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | gnu.bash.bug |
| Subject | Re: Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion) |
| Date | 2019-12-12 23:01 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.748.1576184532.1979.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <5b5064a8-7175-42e7-1eb5-6374dee6c11e@redhat.com> <21761e28-c496-ff67-d7b7-628c9325085f@iki.fi> <9dd3a388-39b1-c059-de99-813f1e411764@case.edu> <5DF2987E.5000309@tlinx.org> <568aeaaa-22b3-c7b9-0e18-a92bef6d2ffb@iki.fi> |
On 12.12. 21:43, L A Walsh wrote:
> 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 "''":
The backquote is in [6], and the backslash disappears, you just get the
pair of quotes in [2] because that's how printf %q outputs an empty string.
>> read -r -a a< <(printf "%q " {Z..a})
>> my -p a
> declare -a a=([0]="Z" [1]="\\[" [2]="''" [3]="\\]" [4]="\\^" [5]="_"
> [6]="\\\`" [7]="a")
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Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi
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Re: Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion) Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi> - 2019-12-12 23:01 +0200
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