Re: echo enhancement leads to confused legacy script tools...

2006-03-19 Thread Linda W
Henrik Nordstrom wrote: lör 2006-03-18 klockan 14:15 -0800 skrev Linda W: Bash added the feature to allow dropping of the leading 0, accepting strings: \0nnn, \nnn, and \xHH. I'm guessing that most bash users run in a shell that has expansion turned off by default or this would have

Re: echo enhancement leads to confused legacy script tools...

2006-03-19 Thread Paul Eggert
Linda W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe bash is broken in regards to using any number after \ as an octal value. The shell specifications require the leading zero for an octal constant I'm afraid this is backwards. This POSIX+XSI requirement constrains applications, not implementations.