On 16/01/2019 11:17, Geoff Clare wrote:
It seems to me that the ksh behaviour here is rather undesirable, so
maybe we should consider mandating (in Issue 8) that the last token in
the value and the first token in the subsequent input must remain as
separate tokens.
If an alias ends in an unquoted backslash, then almost all shells do
combine it with the character following it:
alias a='printf "<%s>\n" \'
a|cat
prints
<|cat>
on almost all shells. The exceptions I can find are bash and zsh, which
print
< >
and pipe that through cat.
None print <\> or <>, the two choices that shells pick for a backslash
not followed by anything else in other cases.
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
