On 7/26/23 10:15 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
Oh, that's weird. I just assumed that sh would be running bash with 'set -o
posix'. Evidently, not in MSYS2. 'man sh' takes me to the Bash man page.
Weird. I don't use MSYS2, but that's how it works on Unix/Linux systems.
When I run sh, 'set -o posix' has no effect, but it definitely makes echo
not interpret any arguments as options when I'm in bash.
Not quite, at least on Unix/Linux/macOS. `set -o posix' by itself doesn't
affect echo's behavior with respect to accepting options or expanding
backslash-escapes in the remaining arguments. There's too much existing
code to try and bother with that. The `xpg_echo' shell option disables
option processing and enables backslash-escape translation, which is the
POSIX/XSI required behavior.
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