Re: Escaped percent sign in shell escape (bang) command (ed 1.16)

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:32 AM Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio@gnu.org> wrote:

What "current GNU behavior" are you talking about?
>

I had persuaded myself that in GNU ed, as opposed to BSD ed, !echo '\%'
output \ followed by the current filename, but that turns out not to be the
case.  Sorry.

> > I further argue that '\\' should send a single backslash to the shell, so
> > that you can write !echo '\\n" to get the output '\n'.
>
> Not so agreed. Now you can write !printf '\n' to get the output '\n'.
>

True.  I won't argue this point further.