Problems in dash.1, sh.1, sh.distrib.1

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Problems with dash.1:

(Identical patches should apply to: sh.1 sh.distrib.1)

Ambiguous or invalid backslash.  This doesn't cause groff a problem.
but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations.

--- dash.1-unpatched	2018-05-16 16:52:28.478288208 -0400
+++ dash.1	2018-05-16 16:52:28.182290220 -0400
@@ -1825,7 +1825,7 @@
 .Ic shift
 will issue an error message, and exit with return status 2.
 .It test Ar expression
-.It \&[ Ar expression Cm ]
+.It \&[ Ar expression \&]
 The
 .Ic test
 utility evaluates the expression and, if it evaluates

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