Debian Bug report logs - #593237
dash built-in echo expands \nnn sequences

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Package: dash; Maintainer for dash is Andrej Shadura <[email protected]>; Source for dash is src:dash (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:42:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: upstream, wontfix

Merged with 538100, 550399, 599834, 652509, 698593

Found in versions 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1, dash/0.5.4-12, dash/0.5.5.1-2, dash/0.5.5.1-6, dash/0.5.5.1-7.4

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Subject: dash: Can't echo \b
From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[email protected]>
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Package: dash
Version: 0.5.5.1-6
Severity: normal

There seems to be no way to produce the sequence "\b" (that's
backslash, then the letter b) using dash's builtin echo. Bash
and /bin/echo work fine. I have tried the following commands in my
shell script:

echo "\b"
echo '\b'

...but they only produce a backspace character (0x08) even though
I have not passed the -e switch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.2.3      Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii  dpkg                          1.15.7.2   Debian package management
system
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib

dash recommends no packages.

dash suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* dash/sh: true

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

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