Re: Sus behaviour when cmd string ends with single backslash

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:38:47 -0600
    From:        Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliamson@gmail.com>
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  | It occurs to me that the -r option of read is related.

It is - if a backslash is the final char of input (ie: no newline follows)
when read is used without -r, what happens to that \ will be unspecified.
(With -r the input should simply be preserved, including any \ chars.)

kre