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Re: escaped newline in macro expansion in command line
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Paul Smith |
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Re: escaped newline in macro expansion in command line |
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Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:56:24 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 23:30 +0000, Humm wrote:
> (woops, sorry for replying off-list first; mutt doesn’t like me)
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> Quoth Paul Smith:
> > In your example the backslash is part of a variable expansion: it's
> > INSIDE the variable expansion so it will be handled by make as part
> > of expanding the variable and won't ever be passed to the shell.
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> POSIX.1-2017 says about this (98624-98631):
Yep, I'm quite familiar with the text. I'm not entirely sure that this
particular usage was envisioned, where the backslash appears inside a
variable reference.