Disregard, and apologies for the noise. I understand now -r is not the same as in bash. Should have clued me in when it didn't work on my mac. On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 1:38 AM David Milum wrote: > Hello, seems like the -r (raw mode) flag which should prevent it from > interpreting backslashes is not working? My understanding is the following > example shouldn't clear the "CLEAR" part. I can also demonstrate with new > lines. > > $ read -r TEST > asd\c CLEAR > $ echo $TEST > asd > $ zsh --version > zsh 5.8 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > > According to pacman the installed version is 5.8.1 > > I was also able to reproduce on my mac > zsh 5.7.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0) >