Hi Michael, Michael J Gruber wrote: > echo "a\"b\n\"c" > a"b > "c > > t7810.87 breaks with dash because of this. Escaping the \n does not make > the test work with both either. This seems to have slipped by because testing it requires USE_LIBPCRE to be set. Thanks for catching it. > So I'd like to know which one's right > and (independently) how to make it work for both... Both are right. The simplest fix is to use printf, as in printf "%s\n" "a\"b\n\"c" See [1] and [2]. Regards, Jonathan [1] http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/autoconf/Limitations-of-Builtins.html#echo [2] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html