Hello GNU team,
I found this misbehaviour in Bash 5 (e.g. GNU bash, version
5.0.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)):
$ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
\x/1\.2/\y/
I don't see any reasonable reason for the generated backslashes here.
Compare to bash 4 (e.g. GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release
(arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)):
$ BLA="1\.2"; echo 'x/'$BLA'/y/'
x/1\.2/y/
I found some discussion around this bug, but it seems not to be finally
fixed:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00087.html
Thanks for checking and fixing this in advance,
regards,
Ralph Beckmann (from Germany)
