[TxMt] Leopard Tiger evil pitfall: escaping a backslash in bash

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

Hi,

During the last two days I've fought against my mind.

I tried to get rid of escaping a backslash in bash. I have a bash  
scripts which reads the selection/line, does something, and finally it  
returns the result as InsertAsSnippet back to TM. Fine. Among others  
one has to escape '\'. OK. I did this in Leopard

T="123\\123"
echo "${T//\\/\\\\}"

Fine. BUT THIS ONLY WORKS UNDER LEOPARD!

Under Tiger I have to write this:

T="123\\123"
echo "${T//\\\\/\\\\}"

It took me two days to figure out that this is caused by using two  
different versions of Bash.

Is this a known issue? If so, is there link to an article mentioning  
more of them?

[I couldn't find an entry mentioning that macromates.com. Maybe worth  
to have one.]

To be compatible with Leopard and Tiger I have to write e.g.:

T="123\\123"
echo "$T" | sed 's/\\/\\\\/'


Regards
--Hans