[PATCH 0 of 1] test-treediscovery.t

Augie Fackler durin42 at gmail.com
Thu May 5 17:34:13 CDT 2011


On May 5, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> 
> On May 5, 2011 6:32 PM, "Augie Fackler" <durin42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Peter,
>> 
>> I'm curious if this passed for you with your escaping. If it did, then
>> maybe our shells have different escaping logic? Does it pass my way
>> for you? Just trying to avoid an edit war on this \.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Augie
> 
> Strangely I had to add the double escape. I tried without it at first too.
> Ubuntu here.
> -parren

In doing some experimentation with one of my fellow project hosting hackers, we determined the following results:

dash$ echo '\\n' # prints a newline
dash$ /bin/echo '\\n'
\\n
bash$ echo '\\n'
\\n
bash$ /bin/echo '\\n'
\\n

So I think it's a dash bug?


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