I was about to report this problem, when I saw in the archive that it has already been discussed here and more or less solved.
So only a few more remarks: I had already reported that issue to the bash-maintainers and their answer was: they had made the change in the "echo -e" behaviour to adhere to some current standards and they mean that no "portable" application should use the "deprecated, non portable" echo, but instead the "portable" printf. The whole little discussion thread can be found in the bug-bash mailing-list under the subject "Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2" And btw, the effect on mc is even bigger in older versions (e.g. 4.5.xx) where not only special characters but all characters are quoted with octal digits in subshell_name_quote(). Jochen Roderburg ZAIK/RRZK University of Cologne Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/478-7024 D-50931 Koeln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel