Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...

[Linda W]

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> lör 2006-03-18 klockan 14:15 -0800 skrev Linda W:
>
> >         Bash added the "feature" to allow dropping of the leading
> > "0",  accepting strings: "\0nnn", "\nnn", and "\xHH".  I'm guessing that
> > most bash users run in a shell that has expansion turned off by default or
> > this would have come up before.
>
> the xpg_echo bash option..
>
> Lets see what this does to configure shall we.. oh, yes it fails
> miserably with this bash option set.
>
> please send this to the autoconf maintainers as well. Probably they can
> add a rule detecting this kind of systems and falling back on an
> alternative somewhat slower echo method..
>
> Regards
> Henrik
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I believe bash is broken in regards to using "any" number after
"\" as an octal value.  The shell specifications require the leading
zero for an octal constant and I don't think this problem would arise
if that was fixed.  I can forward the info to them anyway.