Package: bash
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: minor
{ Preliminary note: This potential bug can be fixed by a single character }
In bash 3.00.16(1) (Sarge package bash3-3.0-12), the string defined in
HISTTIMEFORMAT was interpreted as if there was a space character behind:
$ echo "\"$HISTTIMEFORMAT\""
"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z" # as you can see, there's no space at the end
$ history | grep some_command
9567 2006-08-14 17:49:09 +0200 some_command
$
In Etch's bash 3.1.17(1) (package bash-3.1-5), this space was silently
omitted:
$ history | grep some_command
9567 2006-08-14 17:49:09 +0200some_command
$
I'm okay with either way:
* The old behavior was reasonable.
* The new behavior is more flexible (you could then "finish" the job and
define a HISTFORMAT to control the whole history line's format, although
at least I don't need that).
But I want to know if this is just a bug or a new feature I can rely on,
in which case it should be documented appropriately; at least a note in the
changelog would be a good idea, so that people won't report this as a bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.14 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
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