On Sat 29 Oct 2016, Samuel Williams wrote: > I'm not proposing some additional characters to split on, but quite > the opposite, to handle the backslash escaped spaces correctly and NOT > split. Rest assured, there is no bug with the original escaping. For > your edification: > > $ echo \I\'\m\ \a\ \s\t\r\i\n\g > I'm a string
The point is that the original escaping DOUBLE escapes an equals sign: foo\\\=bar It shouldn't, there's no reason to. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
