On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:17:58PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> Well, continue reading. Either the shell or the echo builtin is
> expanding \1 incorrectly. echo is not supposed to expand anything, so it
> has to be the shell. In either case, it is a major violation of SUS.

You'll find that there are two definitions for 'echo', the BSD one and
the SYSV one.  The latter will convert some \x escape sequences.

	David

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