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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:53:32 +0100
From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: [bug] backslash stripped in sh/ksh emulation
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:38:42AM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> $ ARGV0=ksh zsh -xc 'a="\\*"; case $a in *\\*) echo a;; esac'
> + a='\*'
> + case * (*\*)
[...]

Same problem with:

~$ zsh -c 'setopt globsubst; a="\\\\\\$"; b=${a#?}; print -r "$a" "$b"'
\\\$ \$
~$ zsh -c 'setopt globsubst; a="\\\\\\$"; b="${a#?}"; print -r "$a" "$b"'
\\\$ \\$

best regards,
Stéphane