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Re: ${var@P} expansion includes 0x01 and 0x02


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: ${var@P} expansion includes 0x01 and 0x02
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 08:56:09 -0500
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On 11/9/15 7:53 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:

> 
> With editing off, I find that I must delimit variables with braces. Without
> the braces, only the second escape sequence is output. The \] isn't
> terminating the variable name when editing is off.

When line editing isn't enabled, the \[ and \] escapes have no meaning,
so they're removed.  In the example you give, removing them results in
the variable name including `Hello'.  If this is a problem for your prompt,
you should delimit variable names with braces.

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