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Re: is it a bug that \e's dont get escaped in declare -p output
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Ilkka Virta |
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Re: is it a bug that \e's dont get escaped in declare -p output |
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Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:58:24 +0200 |
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:26 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> I thought, for a moment, that bash already used $'...' quoting for
> newlines, but it turns out that's false. At least for declare -p.
> It would be nice if it did, though. Newlines, carriage returns, escape
> characters, etc.
>
It does in some cases:
$ a=($'new \n line' $'and \e esc'); declare -p a
declare -a a=([0]=$'new \n line' [1]=$'and \E esc')