On 12/6/19 11:27 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 12/6/19 9:23 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
I'm not sure I accept the explanation for the \ missing though, quoting is
also a parser activity (though some of it also happens in pattern matching).
But normally, backslashes (or any other form of quoting) that result from
expansions are simply characters. Quote removal is only supposed to remove
quotes that were present on the original command line.
Quote removal is a word expansion, and removes quotes that were present in
the original word passed to word expansion. Brace expansion is performed
before any of the POSIX word expansions, and is logically a separate step.
Then that argues that {Z..a} should produce \\ and \', rather than bare
characters, so that the subsequent quote removal gets back to the
intended character.
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