On 7/29/20 4:39 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:41:52 -0400
> From: Eli Schwartz <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> | I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you arguing that
> | *printing* these backslash escapes is valid behavior here, and the
> | reporter has merely misunderstood the shell rules?
>
> Neither I suspect, Dale just didn't notice which backslashes Ralph
> meant were the problem - the one in the expansion of $BLA was never
> it, it is the others that appeared - which is an obvious bug
> (probably something trivial) which I would expect will be quickly fixed.
It was fixed last June.
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