361819 – Bash does not do line continuations inside single quotes

Bug 361819 - Bash does not do line continuations inside single quotes

Summary: Bash does not do line continuations inside single quotes

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	libbash (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2011-04-03 18:22 UTC by Petteri Räty (RETIRED)
Modified:	2018-01-25 17:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-03 18:22:34 UTC

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/libbash.git;a=blob_plain;f=bashast/gunit/continued_lines.gunit;hb=da99007ae235f6d19c917d1ff79b3a4838b9b61a

The second test doesn't seem correct. Single quotes pretty much keep everything inside them verbatim.

betelgeuse@pena ~/gsoc/libbash $ cat foo.sh 
echo 'foo\
'
echo "laa\
"
betelgeuse@pena ~/gsoc/libbash $ bash foo.sh 
foo\

laa

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-01-25 17:53:24 UTC

Developer retired (and his mail address is not active anymore)