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Re: Bug related to single-quoting a String
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, at 12:45, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:40 PM Ronald Fischer <ynnor@xxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What I want to report can be a bugh either in the documentaion (man-page) or in the implementation, depending on which one is correct.
> >
> > I am running Zsh 5.5.1 for Cygwin (which seems to be the most recent one available for this platform).
> >
> > In the man-page, it says in the chapter about single-quoting a string:
> >
> > A literal ' character can be included in the string by using the \' escape.
>
> Here's the whole paragraph from which this quote is taken:
>
> A string enclosed between '$'' and ''' is processed the same way as the
> string arguments of the print builtin, and the resulting string is
> considered to be entirely quoted. A literal ''' character can be
> included in the string by using the '\'' escape.
>
> It's talking about $'...'. Both the documentation and the
> implementation are correct.
However, if I do a
echo $'a$b\'c'
it does not work either. Same effect!
Ronald
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