Harald van Dijk <har...@gigawatt.nl> wrote:
>
> Thanks, that helps to clarify. Unfortunately, the valid alternative
> given there:
>
> sh -c 'echo "${x:-\}}"'
>
> seemingly incorrectly prints \} with dash and with bash, so that is a
> non-option at this time for me.
If you need to print anything involving a backspace you should
use printf and not echo.
Cheers,
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