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[Gioele Barabucci <1462002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 259671 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259671

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 259671
   dash: echo builtin interprets backslash escape sequences

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Title:
  dash gets backslash escaping wrong

Status in dash package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Expected behaviour:  -- echo should print one \ for every escaped backslash ("\\")
  $ echo "\\\\"
  \\\\

  Observed behaviour :
  $ echo "\\"    # one escaped-bs
  \

  $ echo "\\\\"  # two escaped
  \

  $ echo "\\\\\\"  # three escaped
  \\

  $ echo "\\\\\\\\" # 4 escaped
  \\

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