Robert Elz writes:
> Neither I suspect, Dale just didn't notice which backslashes Ralph
> meant were the problem - the one in the expansion of $BLA was never
> it, it is the others that appeared - which is an obvious bug
> (probably something trivial) which I would expect will be quickly fixed.
Y
On 7/29/20 4:39 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:41:52 -0400
> From:Eli Schwartz
> Message-ID: <4099319f-bc5e-a2ef-cfe8-6189df5a4...@archlinux.org>
>
> | I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you arguing that
> | *printing* these
On 7/28/20 6:42 PM, Ralph Beckmann wrote:
> Hello GNU team,
>
> I found this misbehaviour in Bash 5 (e.g. GNU bash, version
> 5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)):
>
> $ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
> \x/1\.2/\y/
>
> I don't see any reasonable reason for the generated backslashes here.
Th
Date:Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:41:52 -0400
From:Eli Schwartz
Message-ID: <4099319f-bc5e-a2ef-cfe8-6189df5a4...@archlinux.org>
| I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Are you arguing that
| *printing* these backslash escapes is valid behavior here, and the
On 7/29/20 1:35 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Ralph Beckmann writes:
>> I found this misbehaviour in Bash 5 (e.g. GNU bash, version
>> 5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)):
>>
>> $ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
>> \x/1\.2/\y/
>>
>> I don't see any reasonable reason for the generated backslashe
Ralph Beckmann writes:
> I found this misbehaviour in Bash 5 (e.g. GNU bash, version
> 5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)):
>
> $ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
> \x/1\.2/\y/
>
> I don't see any reasonable reason for the generated backslashes here.
My guess is that you're running into the f
Hello GNU team,
I found this misbehaviour in Bash 5 (e.g. GNU bash, version
5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)):
$ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
\x/1\.2/\y/
I don't see any reasonable reason for the generated backslashes here.
Compare to bash 4 (e.g. GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release
