On 13/07/2021, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Maybe it would be nice if the output would contain no backslashes,
but I see nothing in the POSIX documentation nor in the ed manual that
forces ed to remove them. AFAIK, GNU ed has never removed the slash
before the '%'.
Leaving the escape character hanging around for the user to dispose of
is rather unique among *nix tools, isn't it? It has the effect that
printf and date format strings and such must go in a shell script. I'd
say that's more than an inconvenience, and it's not to be expected from
a GNU tool.
Regards,
M. Thomsen
