On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> > Also note that since the backslash is between quotes you are not actually
> > testing shell behaviour but echo(1) behaviour.
>
> Duh. Time to go to bed ;-)
Hmm...that's not how I've always understood shell quoting, at least for bash:
~$ aa=3
~$ perl -e 'print join(",",@ARGV), "\n";' "1 $aa 2 3" 4 5 6
1 3 2 3,4,5,6
~$
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