David Purdy wrote: > Bash Version: 3.1 > Patch Level: 17 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Substring operations that are meant to return an empty string "" > sometimes return character "\177" instead. > [...] > Fix: > Bash script work-around: Use an intermediate variable until the bug is > fixed.
This was previously reported and is fixed in bash-3.2. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash