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Subject: Re: Test version before zsh 5.4
To: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>,
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From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 18:00:21 +0200
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I found a problem with the shell's generation of C-style shell-quoted
strings ($'...').

% testvar=$'one\\two\n'
breedzicht% set|grep ^testvar
testvar=$'one\two\n'

The backslash is not escaped properly.

- M.