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Re: Ansi-C backslash expansion: $'n' in a double-quoted string adds sing
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Ansi-C backslash expansion: $'n' in a double-quoted string adds single-quote newline single-quote |
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Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:50:16 -0400 |
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Enrique Perez-Terron wrote:
> Hello,
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> The command
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> echo "${PATH//:/$'\n'}"
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> yields
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> /usr/bin'
> '/bin'
> '/usr/X11R6/bin
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> while
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> newline=$'\n'
> echo "${PATH//:/$newline}"
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> yields
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> /usr/bin
> /bin
> /usr/X11R6/bin
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> Is this by intention?
It certainly doesn't seem intended if the `extquote' option is enabled.
I will take a look. Thanks for the report.
Chet
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