Package: xdotool
Version: 1:3.20160805.1-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
execution of xdotool
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
echo -n key --delay 250 e quotedbl greater backslash less dollar percent
plus minus a b c d e f | xdotool -
* What was the outcome of this action?
e">\<$%+-abcdef5
* What outcome did you expect instead?
e">\<$%+-abcdef
(there should be no 5 at the end)
It seems that this happens when using echo with -n switch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xdotool depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxdo3 1:3.20160805.1-3
xdotool recommends no packages.
xdotool suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
