Re: echo $(cygcheck...) oddity

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 02/16/2011 01:06 PM, RISINGP1@nationwide.com wrote:
> I suspected a problem with \r, so I tried it.  However, I am using pdksh, 
> and ended up with something that really was unexpected...

No, that's also expected.

pdksh echo obeys POSIX by default.  Bash echo does not.  Echo and
backslash is a non-portable combination (POSIX itself recommends using
printf if you suspect that you might be printing a backslash, because it
requires the pdksh behavior but so many people have come to expect the
bash behavior).  Since cygcheck output includes backslashes, you should
not expect any sensible behavior when trying to echo it, and should
instead use printf.

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