Your message dated Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:14:14 +0800 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: `dash` echo is inconsistent with all other echo has caused the Debian Bug report #1138751, regarding `dash` echo is inconsistent with all other echo to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dash Version: 0.5.13.3 Severity: normal # greeting Hi, developers. I'm first time bug report outside github using email. Hope I did it right. ## bug `dash` echo is inconsistent with all other echo ## version nixpkgs dash 0.5.13.3 ## reproduce ```sh echo XDI0NAo= | base64 -d >/tmp/reproduce.txt dash -c 'echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' dash -c 'uutils-echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' bash -c 'echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' busybox sh -c 'echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' ksh -c 'echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' mksh -c 'echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' zsh -c 'echo "$(cat /tmp/reproduce.txt)"' ``` ## actual ```console � \244 \244 \244 \244 \244 \244 ``` ## expected ```console \244 \244 \244 \244 \244 \244 \244 ``` ## workaround use `uutils-coreutils`
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--- Begin Message ---On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 08:19:59AM +0000, loynoir wrote: > > ```sh > echo XDI0NAo= | base64 -d >/tmp/reproduce.txt ... > ## actual > > > ```console > � This is not a bug. Dash is interpreting the escape sequence as mandated by POSIX. To portably produce a backslash character, you should use printf instead of echo. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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