Your message dated Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:33:12 -0700 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: dash: echo "\\c" does not print a backslash followed by c has caused the Debian Bug report #908861, regarding dash: echo "\\c" does not print a backslash followed by c to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dash Version: 0.5.10.2-1 Severity: normal -- Description of the problem -- Next commands are executed as expected: bs@sid:~$ dash $ man dash | grep "Output a backslash" \\ Output a backslash. $ echo "\\" \ $ echo "c" c $ exit bs@sid:~$ Next command is executed, but not as expected and reason for this bugreport: bs@sid:~$ dash $ echo "\\c" $ exit bs@sid:~$ Next commands are workarounds, that behave as expected, but without dash echo bs@sid:~$ dash $ /bin/echo "\\c" \c $ bash -c 'echo "\\c"' \c $ exit bs@sid:~$ -- My assumption -- It seems, dash interprets "\\c" like "\c" which means that Subsequent output is suppressed, as shown in the manpage. If this bugreport is considered as valid by the developers, I believe the same bug may also be in other shells like 'busybox sh', 'mksh' and 'posh' and I will double check this suspicion and report additional bug reports. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.6 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii libc6 2.27-6 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, [email protected] wrote: > Please close this bug as invalid. > Sorry for this invalid bug report. > I found out, this is no bug. > > The reason that confuse me was: > $ [ "\\\\" = '\\' ] && echo "is the same" > is the same > > Also /bin/echo and bash behaves the same way when called with option -e > $ /bin/echo -e "\\c" > $ /bin/echo -e "\\\\c" > \c > $ bash -c 'echo -e "\\c"' > $ bash -c 'echo -e "\\\\c"' > \c Thanks, closing.
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