Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > Finally i found out that the refusing command line does not > have an ASCII Blank (decimal 32) before the pipe symbol > but rather UTF-8 code (194,160) which means U+00A0 > "NO-BREAK SPACE". > Obviously this does not count as whitespace in bash (vanilla > Debian 8.1 install). The error message had (194,160) between > ".." and ":". > > Now i riddle how my chair, my US-ASCII keyboard, and the > problem inbetween managed to produce such a character > in the bash (libreadline) command line of an xterm. > > Does anybody have an idea how to reproduce this ? > (In order to better avoid it.)
I just typed ls .. .. and I got two listings of .. so then I tried Alt-Space and that's enough: ls .. .. ls: cannot access .. ..: No such file or directory so I think you'll have the problem every once in a while. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150802145827.GA10061@alum
