On 7/26/23 10:21 PM, Zachary Santer wrote:
However, the man page for bash 5.2 only says the following about xpg_echo,
in the section about shopt:
"If set, the echo builtin expands backslash-escape sequences by default."
It makes no mention of disabling option processing.
Similarly, in the description of the echo command, we see:
"The xpg_echo shell option may be used to dynamically determine whether or
not echo expands these escape characters by default."
So is that a bug in the documentation?
Not really a bug, but it can be expanded. The XPG spec for echo (what POSIX
shades `XSI' in the spec) does not accept options.
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