Re: Bash not escaping escape sequences in directory names

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/24/22 6:39 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

they're
a sop to csh users that Korn put in his shell to try and make it more
attractive to csh users (of all the things to worry about, this was about

the least important), and then which bash copied.

That is not true. Bash introduced these.

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