Re: triviality with prompts

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/03/2014 01:22 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> (The special meaning of backslash to certain commands like print and 
> echo is entirely separate from quoting, though often similar in effect.) 
Yeah, that's a gotcha that I now get, but it sure caused me some grief.  
I wish there was some string modifier that distinguished between 
backslash as quote, and backslash as escape.  Maybe that's not doable, 
but I run into situations where I need to protect a ' \n  ' but don't 
care about stripping the backslash off what is a 'real' quoted 
character.  I now know that the escape situation is, technically, not 
the shell's business, OTOH shell builtins might perhaps not be treated 
like total strangers when it comes to escapes since they are obviously 
in the family.