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From: Oleg Bulatov <oleg@bulatov.me>
Subject: Line continuation and variables
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:15:04 +0400
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Hi!

While playing with sh generators I found that dash and bash have different
interpretations for <slash><newline> sequence.

$ dash -c 'EDIT=xxx; echo $EDIT\
> OR'
xxxOR
$ bash -c 'EDIT=xxx; echo $EDIT\
OR'
/usr/bin/vim

$ dash -c 'echo "$\
(pwd)"'
$(pwd)

Is it undefined behaviour in POSIX?

-- 
WBR, Oleg Bulatov