dash gets backslash escaping wrong
Bug #1462002 reported by
mjh
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #259671: dash: echo builtin interprets backslash escape sequences.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| dash (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Expected behaviour: -- echo should print one \ for every escaped backslash ("\\")
$ echo "\\\\"
\\\\
Observed behaviour :
$ echo "\\" # one escaped-bs
\
$ echo "\\\\" # two escaped
\
$ echo "\\\\\\" # three escaped
\\
$ echo "\\\\\\\\" # 4 escaped
\\
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| mjh (moonbug1970) wrote | #1 |
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Never mind, I see this has has already received the ubiquitous WONTFIX.
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