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Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters |
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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:47:41 -0500 |
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Patrick Nagelschmidt <dto@gmx.net> writes:
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>> ++ echo '1197919330 - (1197919330 % 86400) - 86400'
>> ++ bc -i
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> This is bogus. Why are you forcing bc in interactive mode?
I'm assuming this is the problem, since bc -i uses readline, and the
bogus sequence looks suspiciously like a terminal initialization
sequence.
Chet
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