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| From: | Paul Jarc |
| Subject: | Re: A bug in Bourne - horrors!! |
| Date: | Mon, 09 May 2005 16:40:14 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Easton <address@hidden> wrote: > DATA='test line one\\ > a continuation line' > echo "$DATA" # the variable DATA has only one "\" in it. Try 'printf %s\\n "$DATA"', and you'll see two backslashes. echo is doing one level of backslash-processing here (as permitted by POSIX/SUS). paul
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