forwarded 349855 upstream quit 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 it seems. Sorry, I don't have a patch to suggest this time. Thanks for the report, Torsten. Regards, Gerrit. > I encountered the problem, when a script failed which worked on file > names containing the special character: > > $ touch "`printf "xxx\201"`" > $ ls xxx* > xxx? > $ set xxx* > $ ls "$1" > ls: xxx: No such file or directory > $ ls "$@" > ls: xxx: No such file or directory > > With bash there is no problem, so I wonder if this is a dash bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
