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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:48:22 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Jeremie Roquet <arkanosis@gmail.com>
 "Re: Interesting zsh behaviour regarding awk and backslash" (Sep 27,  1:54pm)
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On Sep 27,  1:54pm, Jeremie Roquet wrote:
}
} Why bother with gawk?
} 
} bash$ echo '\\'
} \\
} zsh$ echo '\\'
} \

This isn't quoting behavior, it's "echo" behavior.  If you tell zsh to
act like a standard shell, it does:

% ARGV0=sh zsh -f
$ echo '\\'
\\
$  set -o | grep echo
nobsdecho             off
$