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Re: tables - $'\x7f' does not loaded properly
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: tables - $'\x7f' does not loaded properly |
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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:44:11 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) |
Antonio Macchi wrote:
> $ a=( $'\x7e' $'\x7f' $'\x80' )
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> $ hexdump -C <(echo -n ${a[@]} )
> 00000000 7e 20 01 7f 20 80 |~ .. .|
> 00000006
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> bash puts two characters (\x01 and \x7f) instead of only one \x7f
Yes, it's a bug. Thanks for the report. It will be fixed in the next
version of bash. It's only a problem in these exact circumstances --
ansi-c quoted strings in a compound array assignment.
Chet
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