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Re: Backtick cannot be escaped in double-quoted string



On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:40 AM, ZyX <zyx@xxxxx> wrote:
> When I write echo "\`abc'" instead of getting «`abc'» echoed I get prompt
> «dquote bquote>». [...]  Zsh version 4.3.11-r1 («-r1» means that ebuild
> maintainers did huge enough changes to the ebuild to repost it), Gentoo amd64.

I'm not able to reproduce this with ZSH_VERSION = 4.3.11-dev-1 and
ZSH_PATCHLEVEL = 1.5241, so unless you have an alias for echo that
might be changing the parse, this looks like a Gentoo-induced bug.



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