Comment 4 for bug 259671
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| Nonconventionally Creative (br-longbons) wrote Re: shell script parsing of strings when there is a square bracket. Missing backslashes | #4 |
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(Get the code!)
There is a much simpler test: does
echo '\\'
print one backslash or 2?
The man page says:
Single Quotes
Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal meaning of all the characters (except sin‐
gle quotes, making it impossible to put single-quotes in a single-quoted string).
This bug should be SEVERE because it makes it practically impossible to write portable shell scripts.