Package: dash
Version: 0.5.10.2-1
Severity: normal
-- Description of the problem --
Next commands are executed as expected:
bs@sid:~$ dash
$ man dash | grep "Output a backslash"
\\ Output a backslash.
$ echo "\\"
\
$ echo "c"
c
$ exit
bs@sid:~$
Next command is executed, but not as expected and reason for this bugreport:
bs@sid:~$ dash
$ echo "\\c"
$ exit
bs@sid:~$
Next commands are workarounds, that behave as expected, but without dash echo
bs@sid:~$ dash
$ /bin/echo "\\c"
\c
$ bash -c 'echo "\\c"'
\c
$ exit
bs@sid:~$
-- My assumption --
It seems, dash interprets "\\c" like "\c" which means that Subsequent output is
suppressed, as shown in the manpage.
If this bugreport is considered as valid by the developers, I believe the same
bug may also be in other shells like 'busybox sh', 'mksh' and 'posh' and I will
double check this suspicion and report additional bug reports.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8.6
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii libc6 2.27-6
dash recommends no packages.
dash suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* dash/sh: true
