On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, at 12:48, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/06/2018 04:40 AM, Joshua Phillips wrote:
> > Escape sequences don't work in single quotes:
> >
> > $ echo 'hello\world'
> > hello\world
> > $ echo 'hello\'
>
> Warning. Use of 'echo' and backslashes is non-portable. There are two
>
On 09/06/2018 04:40 AM, Joshua Phillips wrote:
Escape sequences don't work in single quotes:
$ echo 'hello\world'
hello\world
$ echo 'hello\'
Warning. Use of 'echo' and backslashes is non-portable. There are two
classical behaviors:
1. backslashes are not special to echo unless you pass -e,
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'
>
