Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1
Severity: normal

Note: I tested this against upstream 0.5.7 too, and this is the best
place I can find to report an upstream bug. Sorry if it’s the wrong
place.

$ dash
$ echo '\1'


In case that’s not easy to read, the output is a control-A, i.e.
character code 1.

Other shells output the two characters backslash, 1, and as far as I
can tell, that’s what should happen; certainly the dash man page says:

   Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal meaning of
     all the characters (except single quotes, …

which suggests that inside single quotes backslashes should not be
special.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers oneiric-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 
'oneiric'), (500, 'natty-security')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii  debianutils              4.0.2           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                     1.16.0.3ubuntu5 Debian package management system
ii  libc6                    2.13-20ubuntu5  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

dash recommends no packages.

dash suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  dash/sh: true



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