This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: allow executing a path in backslash notation
Eric Blake a Ãcrit :
That's bash's rules. According to POSIX, "\n" has undefined behavior.
And in some other implementations, such as Solaris sh, "\n" is
interpolated by the shell as a newline. Bash instead does the
interpolation when you use $'\n'.
isn't it the echo command which interpret the \n sequence ?
could you try using : printf ":%s:\n" "x\nx"
But the moral of the story is that within "", it is only portable to use
\ if it is followed by one of the four bytes specifically documented by
POSIX.
whatever the shell I've tested, the answer was : :x\nx:
even on solaris 9 using /sbin/sh or hp-ux 11i using /usr/old/bin/sh
Regards,
Cyrille Lefevre
--
mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists@laposte.net
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple