Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-4+b1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
As it says on the man page and in the POSIX standard, the single quote is supposed to prevent escape sequences from being expanded. It's broken: nr@homedog ©105/c/lambda-solo> /bin/dash : nr@homedog ! ; echo '\f.\x.x' .\x.x For comparison, here's how /bin/ksh handles the single quote: : nr@homedog ! ; nr@homedog ©105/c/lambda-solo> /bin/ksh : nr@homedog 10010 ; echo '\f.\x.x' \f.\x.x : nr@homedog 10011 ; This one is a showstopper for me; I have infrastructure that depends on /bin/sh handling this correctly. Perhaps related to bug 837789. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii dpkg 1.17.27 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true
