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Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] Regression in ksh93v-: echo does no longer accept
escape sequences
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> In this context I would like to understand, why ksh complains about
> unbalanced a
> postrophes in the following assignment:
> cp003421> aux='ab\'c d\'ef'
>
\ is not special inside '...' si that this the second ' terminates the
quoted string and the second \ which is in fron of ' quotes it so
that it is not seen as a quote.
aux=$'ab\'c d\'ef'
is equivalent to "ab\'c d\'ef" in C.
David Korn
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