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Re: $"\t': Bash bug or not?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: $"\t': Bash bug or not? |
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Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:09:40 -0500 |
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On 11/15/17 10:01 AM, Rick Richardson wrote:
> $ echo "$'\t' " | xod
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> Dump: standard input
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> Offset: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef
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> 00000000: 24 27 5c 74 27 20 0a | $'\t' .
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> A Bash bug???
Where's the bug? Since single quotes aren't special within double quotes,
what behavior do you expect?
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