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Re: DEL character treated specially when preceded by a backslash when us
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: DEL character treated specially when preceded by a backslash when used in the RHS of the regex operator ([[ $'\177' =~ $'\\\177' ]]) |
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Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:43:46 -0500 |
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On 1/16/14 6:46 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> The DEL ($'\177') character does not behave like the other control
> characters when used with the regex operator inside the test keyword.
This has to do with the expansion of $r and that $r includes a backslash.
When combined with the internal quoting bash does, and the fact that the
backslash is special to pattern matching, we end up with this problem.
I've only thought about it a little so far, but I don't know if there's a
quick or simple fix. This may have to wait until after bash-4.3 is
released.
Chet
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