Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> If it's not to enable backwards and cross-Unix compatability, why do we
> care about POSIX at all?
> bash, /bin/echo and POSIXLY_CORRECT /bin/echo all treat "\c" as a literal,
> for reference.
GNU has always adopted the BSD behaviour of not interpreting back
slashes. All SYSV shells behaved like
printf "%b\n" "$*"
This includes pdksh.
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