Control: tag -1 upstream wontfix On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:19:43 +0200 Bernd Schumacher <be...@bschu.de> wrote: > 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.
This does not appear to be a bug, since dash’s echo interprets escapes by default: https://www.mail-archive.com/dash@vger.kernel.org/msg01713.html -- Cheers, Andrej
