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From: Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:01:58 +0200
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On 12.12. 21:43, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 2019/12/06 14:14, Chet Ramey wrote:
>=20
> Seems very hard to print out that backquote though.=C2=A0 Closest I got
> was bash converting it to "''":

The backquote is in [6], and the backslash disappears, you just get the=20
pair of quotes in [2] because that's how printf %q outputs an empty strin=
g.

>> =C2=A0read -r -a a< <(printf "%q " {Z..a})
>> =C2=A0my -p a
> declare -a a=3D([0]=3D"Z" [1]=3D"\\[" [2]=3D"''" [3]=3D"\\]" [4]=3D"\\^=
" [5]=3D"_"=20
> [6]=3D"\\\`" [7]=3D"a")


--=20
Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi