On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 10:47:09AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote:
Hi Herbert, I can confirm this. '\201' is used as CTLESC, and removed
on expansion it seems. Sorry, I don't have a patch to suggest this
time.
Yes this is a real bug. Here is the patch that should fix this.
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:25:29PM +0100, Torsten Scheck wrote:
The character 'octal 201' is dropped when it is stored in a shell
variable:
$ x=`printf xxx\201`
$ echo $x
xxx
Hi Herbert, I can confirm this. '\201' is used as CTLESC,
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:25:29PM +0100, Torsten Scheck wrote:
The character 'octal 201' is dropped when it is stored in a shell
variable:
$ x=`printf xxx\201`
$ echo $x
xxx
Hi Herbert, I can confirm this. '\201' is used as CTLESC, and removed
on expansion
Package: dash
Version: 0.5.2-5
Severity: normal
The character 'octal 201' is dropped when it is stored in a shell
variable:
$ x=`printf xxx\201`
$ echo $x
xxx
I encountered the problem, when a script failed which worked on file
names containing the special character:
$ touch `printf xxx\201`
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