Re: in error messages, do not output raw non-printable characters to the terminal

[Ryan Cunningham]

Maybe BASH should instead output "$'\r'" in the error message in your case.

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> On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:58 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
> 
> In error messages, raw non-printable characters from arguments should
> not be output without transformation, at least if this is on a terminal.
> If stderr has been redirected, this is more a matter of choice.
> 
> An example: type "cd /^M" where ^M is a CR character (e.g. obtained by
> typing ^V ^M). One gets on the terminal:
> 
> : No such file or directory
> 
> which is not very informative. This leads to this kind of questions:
> 
>  
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/154408/cant-cd-to-home-user-when-sourcing-a-script
> 
> IMHO, in this case, bash should do like zsh, which replaces the CR
> character by the character sequence "^M".
> 
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