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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Long filenames in DOS/Windows and Unix/Linux
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 21:54:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:56:08 -0400, Wayne wrote:

> On 9/1/2024 3:03 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Sorry, no, it looks like the “$'...'” syntax for string literals is not
>> from Posix, it’s a Bash-ism.
> 
> Actually, dollar quotes were added to POSIX as of SUS Issue 8:

Glad to know. I was looking at the man page for dash(1) as my reference 
for a vanilla POSIX shell.

<https://manpages.debian.org/1/dash.1.en.html>