Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: era+debb...@iki.fi
I was somewhat surprised and miffed to find that this does not work. I found old correspondence about this issue on the bash-bugs mailing list [1] but it was hardly an exhaustive discussion. [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-03/msg00063.html To my mind, in particular the non-POSIX $'\x00' syntax could impossibly be used in scripts which do not run Bash. It's not entirely clear to me what the logic should be here; if the builtin echo really cannot support this, then perhaps a warning message would be appropriate. As noted in the 2006 discussion, a (portable!) workaround is to use printf instead. -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
