Bug#127997: perl: Text::ParseWords::shellwords allows single quote char to be backslash-escaped inside single quotes (unlike shell)

[Niko Tyni]

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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:36:26AM -0900, Britton Leo Kerin wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.6.1-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> I sort of like this bug, but it's not how sh works.

Sorry for the lack of action on this.

I can't reproduce this; with Text-ParseWords 3.2 that shipped with perl 5.6.1:

% perl -Ilib -MText::ParseWords -le "my @a = shellwords(qq(echo 'ab \' c')); print scalar @a"
0
% perl -Ilib -MText::ParseWords -le "my @a = shellwords(qq(echo 'ab c')); print scalar @a" 
2

which IMO shows that the backslash-escaped single quote char in the first
example made the parsing fail. I think this is the expected behaviour.

This is also the case with current Text-ParseWords versions.

Please let me know if I can close this bug.

Thanks,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org