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Re: Replacing \ by \\ in variables


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Replacing \ by \\ in variables
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:53:29 -0400

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 01:43 -0700, Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote:
> echo $(subst \\,\\\\,$(variable))

You don't need to escape backslashes here:

        echo '$(subst \,\\,$(variable))'

Note the single quotes, or the shell will mess with the backslashes.

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