On 19/11/10 14:53, Herbert Xu wrote:
Harald van Dijk<harald@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:sh -c 'echo "${x:-\}}"'If you need to print anything involving a backspace you should use printf and not echo.
It's true that backslashes should not be passed to echo, but assuming unset or empty x, "${x:-\}}" should expand to "}", and that is all echo should see.
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