Re: Quoted closing brace in variable default expansion

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Harald van Dijk <harald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks, that helps to clarify. Unfortunately, the valid alternative 
> given there:
> 
>   sh -c 'echo "${x:-\}}"'
> 
> seemingly incorrectly prints \} with dash and with bash, so that is a 
> non-option at this time for me.

If you need to print anything involving a backspace you should
use printf and not echo.

Cheers,
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