Public bug reported:

Expected behaviour:  -- echo should print one \ for every escaped backslash 
("\\")
$ echo "\\\\"
\\\\

Observed behaviour :
$ echo "\\"    # one escaped-bs
\

$ echo "\\\\"  # two escaped
\

$ echo "\\\\\\"  # three escaped
\\

$ echo "\\\\\\\\" # 4 escaped
\\

** Affects: dash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  dash gets backslash escaping wrong

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