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Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of param


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions.
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:12:13 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux)

John Kearney <dethrophes@web.de> writes:

> It isn't just the quote removal that is confusing.
>
> The escape character is also not removed and has its special meaning.

The esacape character is also a quote character, thus also subject to
quote removal.

Andreas.

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