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  1. Bug #259671
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 259671

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Richard Hansen (rhansen) wrote :

This is not a bug -- http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html says that echo should process the backslashes. It would be a bug if echo did not process the backslashes.

If you don't want backslashes processed, use printf:

    printf %s\\n '\\'