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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Interesting zsh behaviour regarding awk and backslash
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:18:29 +0200
In-reply-to: <CAJR5sYiP00oUMEBmKgV_76oiUD6BFNzxgGKpTgNvHwBjQQWy6g@mail.gmail.com> ("İsmail Dönmez"'s message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:54:52 +0200")
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İsmail Dönmez wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 27 September 2011 13:42, İsmail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>> > Ideas?
>>
>> setopt bsdecho (it changes whether -e or -E is the default mode).
>>
>
> Thanks that works,  any reason this is not on by default for sh
> compatibility though?

You can't really portable with `echo'. Even the POSIX section about
`echo' explicitly says something like "For portable applications, use
`printf' instead.".

Regards, Frank

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References:
- Interesting zsh behaviour regarding awk and backslash
  - From: İsmail Dönmez
- Re: Interesting zsh behaviour regarding awk and backslash
  - From: Mikael Magnusson
- Re: Interesting zsh behaviour regarding awk and backslash
  - From: İsmail Dönmez

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