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Re: Empty sub-string expansion bug
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Empty sub-string expansion bug |
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Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:08:18 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) |
David Purdy wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> Substring operations that are meant to return an empty string ""
> sometimes return character "\177" instead.
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[...]
> Fix:
> Bash script work-around: Use an intermediate variable until the bug is
> fixed.
This was previously reported and is fixed in bash-3.2.
Chet
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