On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:57:04PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > The dash's built-in echo command expands \nnn-style sequences, like > this: > > $ echo 'a\165b' > aub
It looks like SUSv3 requires an initial 0 for the octal escapes. > Most modern shells has an option to turn on that escape sequence > expansion, -e, and recognizes more escape sequences (like \xnn > hexadecimal sequences, \n\r\t symbolic sequences and so on). That would be a violation of POSIX and thus a violation of Debian policy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
