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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 09:07:33 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From: Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject:  Re: readline behaves differently from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5
To: "Zhou, Zhongyu" <zzhou01 AT sprintspectrum DOT com>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Tue, 21 May 2002 10:10:47 -0500 "Zhou, Zhongyu" <zzhou01 AT sprintspectrum DOT com> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have just upgraded my cygwin (bash) from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5, and it broke
> one of our development scripts.  Basically what it did was, to drop the
> backslash from the input.   My readline version is 4.2a-1.
> e.g.,
>  test.sh     file
> ========= 
> contains:
> cat junk.txt | while read line
> do
>         if [ $line = "This\is\a\test" ] ; then

Note that (\) has special meaning to the shell.  Try using (') instead
of (") or doubling the \s to see if either makes a difference.
Considering how shell escaping in (") works, I don't see how this ever
worked.

>                 echo `cat junk.txt`
>         else
>                 echo "This is bad"
>         fi
> done
> 
> junk.txt  file
> ==============
> contains:
> This\is\a\test
> 
> I got an output This is bad.

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