On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, at 09:40, Joshua Phillips wrote: > Escape sequences don't work in single quotes: > > $ echo 'hello\world' > hello\world > $ echo 'hello\' > hello\ > > Which makes it surprising that double backslashes get converted to > single backslashes: > > $ echo 'hello\\world' > hello\world > > Is this intended behaviour? Bash behaves as I would have expected.
This isn't just in single quotes either: $ echo \\ \ $ echo \\\\ \ This could be quite dangerous if programs are double-escaping commands to be passed to e.g. SSH through dash.
