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Package: dash
Version: 0.5.4-6
Severity: critical
the handling of double quotes does not conform to posix spex: quote from
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
"The backslash shall retain its special meaning as an escape
character (see Escape Character (Backslash)) only when
followed by one of the following characters when considered
special: $ ` " \ <newline>"
as this applies to the "echo" builtin, it breaks the debian
maintenance script /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf, see Bug#462460
$ echo "a\nb"
a
b
$ /bin/echo "a\nb"
a\nb
thank you for your attention. regards Peter.
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On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:51:26PM +0100, hungerburg wrote:
> the handling of double quotes does not conform to posix spex: quote from
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
> "The backslash shall retain its special meaning as an escape
> character (see Escape Character (Backslash)) only when
> followed by one of the following characters when considered
> special: $ ` " \ <newline>"
>
> as this applies to the "echo" builtin, it breaks the debian
> maintenance script /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf, see Bug#462460
Hi hungerburg, please see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html
dash correctly implements the XSI-conformant variant.
Regards, Gerrit.
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