Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chaze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I made the wrong assumptions based on the fact that
>
> a='/a/\b'; echo $a
>
> expands to /a/b when /a is readable and /a/\b when not,
> suggesting \ is a "pattern character" in that case.
So on a typial system where /a does not exist, it expands to /a/<BS>
Jörg
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