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From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT spirentcom DOT com>
Subject:  bash quoting bug
Date:  Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:59:20 -0500
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I see that there have been some bash problems recently.  I am
reporting this in case it hasn't been handled in an upcoming
release of bash:

$ bash -c 'echo `echo "\\""`'
bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$


The proper output is a " character.
-- 
Joe Buehler


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