On 12/22/20 9:13 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
Arguably it's a bug that 'help read' doesn't mention the effect of
backslashes, other than what can be extrapolated from the description of
-r. It only says "The line is split into fields _as with word splitting_",
but word splitting doesn't recognize backslashes as special. It should not
be necessary to read the description of all options to infer the behaviour
of a command as used without them.
That isn't the function of `help'. The help documentation is intended to be
a quick reference, not to duplicate everything in the man page.
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