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Re: Bug Report: Escaped backslash incorrectly reinterpreted as control escape in double-quoted strings

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Bug Report: Escaped backslash incorrectly reinterpreted as control escape in double-quoted strings
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:29:48 +0000 (GMT)
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> On 26/11/2025 10:29 GMT Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is not a bug, but the default behavior of echo in zsh as
> documented.

Indeed, this is quite easy to see.

% echo "\`\\blog\\\`"
log\`

# With system echo
% /bin/echo "\`\\blog\\\`"
`\blog\`

# With raw print, suppressing interpretation of backslashes
% print -r -- "\`\\blog\\\`"
`\blog\`

On my Ubuntu system all the command line printf's I can lay my hands on
actually behave the same as zsh, including the external command and
those built into other shells.

cheers
pws

References:
- Bug Report: Escaped backslash incorrectly reinterpreted as control escape in double-quoted strings
  - From: Jelius Basumatary
- Re: Bug Report: Escaped backslash incorrectly reinterpreted as control escape in double-quoted strings
  - From: Mikael Magnusson

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