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

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Not missing, but very hard to see (was Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion)
Date	2019-12-13 10:31 -0500
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On 12/12/19 9:57 PM, L A Walsh wrote:

>> 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.
> -----
> 
>     I'm sorry, but you are mistaken.
> 
>     The characters from 'Z' (0x5A) through 'z' (0x61) are:
> 
> 0x5A 0x5B 0x5C 0x5D 0x5E 0x5F 0x60 0x61
> Z    [    \    ]     ^   _     `    a
> 
> the backslash comes between the two square brackets.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-12/msg00017.html

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