On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 08:12:49AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > So... something inside "git submodule add" is replacing the \b with a > backspace control code. > [...] > Whatever that "something" is, it is not doing shell expansion, otherwise it > would have started an interactive calculator session. Probably it's "read" which does backslash expansion, but nothing else. Just grepping git-submodule.sh, some of the "read" calls should probably be "read -r" (I also don't know how some of those loops would cope with a submodule name that needed quoting). -Peff