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Re: Handling Double-quoted backslash

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Handling Double-quoted backslash
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:17:37 -0700
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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:58 PM, EG Galano <eg.galano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not certain if this is a bug because many different shells handle
> the case differently. I started testing double-quoted backslashes with
> the newline character to see how the different shells handled the
> following commands. I'm no expert, but based on what I've learned
> about escaping
> charcters, I would think TCSH is the only one that handles it
> correctly. Is that not correct?

What  you've failed to account for is that shells also implement
"echo" differently, so the output is not determined solely by the
quoting.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Handling Double-quoted backslash
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  - From: EG Galano

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