Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chaze...@yahoo.fr> writes:

> The problem and confusion here comes from the fact that "\" is
> overloaded and used by two different pieces of software (bash
> and the system regex).

That's nothing new.  The backslash is widely used as a quote character
in several languages, which requires two levels of quoting if one of
these languages is embedded in another one.

Andreas.

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