Re: Consume only up to 8 bit octal input for backslash-escaped chars (echo, printf)

[Roman Rakus]

On 12/08/2010 02:19 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 12/7/10 11:12 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
> > This one is already reported on coreutils:
> > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=2;bug=7574
> >
> > The problem is with numbers higher than /0377; echo and printf consumes all
> > 3 numbers, but it is not 8-bit number. For example:
> > $ echo -e '\0610'; printf '\610 %b\n' '\610 \0610'
> > Should output:
> > 10
> > 10 10 10
> > instead of
> > �
> > � � �
> No, it shouldn't.  This is a terrible idea.  All other shells I tested
> behave as bash does*, bash behaves as Posix specifies, and the bash
> behavior is how C character constants work.  Why would I change this?
Just wanted to work as coreutils. But ok, you can choose ;)
> (*That is, consume up to three octal digits and mask off all but the lower
> 8 bits of the result.)
Yep. Nothing against this.
> Chet
RR