Paul Eggert writes:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > $ a='a\b'
> > $ set | grep '^a='
> > a='a\b'
> > $ echo "$a"
> > a
> > $
> POSIX says that the last echo is equivalent to
>
> $ echo 'a\b'
>
> and that the results are implementation-defined, since 'echo' has
> undefined behavior if its operands contain a backslash. (On
> XSI-conformant systems, the system must print a backslash; perhaps
^^^^^^^^^
> that's what ash did.)
s/backslash/backspace/
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Jeff Sheinberg
