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Re: [BUG?] read -n limits bytes, not characters
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Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: [BUG?] read -n limits bytes, not characters |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:06:33 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) |
Jan Schampera wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i486
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib
> -g -O2
> uname output: Linux mainserver 2.6.18-5-486 #1 Tue Oct 2 23:38:54 UTC
> 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.1
> Patch Level: 17
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> read -n limits bytes, not characters
>
> Repeat-By:
> read -n1 <<< '(some weird unicode character)'
> echo "$REPLY"
>
>
> Also tested with 3.2 patchlevel 25 (IIRC).
Thanks for the report. This has already been fixed, and the fix will
be in the next release.
Chet
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