Subject: Re: dash does not obey POSIX quoting rules for backlashes in single quotes

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:09:31 -0800

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Hi Norman,

Norman Ramsey wrote:

>   : nr@homedog ! ; echo 'hello\n'
>   hello
>
>   : nr@homedog ! ;
>
> This bug is breaking my POSIX-compliant shell scripts.

Not POSIX-compliant, unfortunately.  See

  http://bugs.debian.org/613473
  http://bugs.debian.org/538100
  http://bugs.debian.org/490605

Your best bet for the future is to use

	printf '%s\n' 'hello\n'

Sorry I don't have better news,
Jonathan