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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Having said that, are we sure that
>
> 	printf "add bar\0initial"
>
> works per specification, or merely works by accident in some
> implementation?

Since the backslash is not followed by $ ` " \ <newline> it is not
special to the shell.

Andreas.

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