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Author: Unknown
Subject: Escaped = follow-up
Date: Sunday, 27 Sep 2020, 18:33:11

If the escape character \ removes any special meaning, is this output expected?

$ text\=text
parsley: null command

I would have expected the output to be:
CMD (Depth = 0):  SIMPLE,  argv[0] = text=text
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