Hello,
I want to print C:\abc in a portable way. Or rather, store the value
C:\abc in a variable. I have bash 5.2.15-3.fc38 and dash 0.5.12-1.fc38.
/bin/sh is a symlink to bash.
In interactive bash
echo "C:\\abc"
prints
C:\abc . The same happens when I store in a file and execute it:
#!/bin/bash
echo "C:\\abc"
#!/bin/bash --posix
echo "C:\\abc"
#!/bin/sh
echo "C:\\abc"
With dash it is different:
#!/bin/dash
echo "C:\\abc"
prints C:bc . When I replace above a with k, echo "C:\\kbc" prints
C:\kbc .
When I replace the double quotes with single quotes, echo 'C:\\abc' ,
dash prints C:\abc, but bash (interactive, /bin/sh and bash --posix)
prints C:\\abc .
All that said I think this is a bug in dash.
The above echos are simplified use case, in reality I want to execute
A="C:\\abc" ./script and the script shall see C:\abc as value to the
variable A.
Kind regards
Dilyan
