On 24/01/17 08:56 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Probably we're back to the "different levels of quoting" thing here;
i.e.,
even if you've successfully protected everything from interpretation by
the shell language parser, you can still encounter another interpretation
done by the command itself, such as backslashes within "print" and "echo".
In nearly all cases those have a control of their own to force literal
use of arguments ("echo -E", "print -r", etc.).
Sure. If only one couldlearn this stuff other than the hard way. I'd
sure like to have a conversation with myself of three years ago and tell
me what I know now. I think back to expecting zsh to be something like
C, now I understand that they couldn't be more different and why that is.