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

Started byIlkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi>
First post2019-12-12 23:01 +0200
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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

#15721 — Re: Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion)

FromIlkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi>
Date2019-12-12 23:01 +0200
SubjectRe: Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion)
Message-ID<mailman.748.1576184532.1979.bug-bash@gnu.org>
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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