Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Same here. The character is DEL:
>
> ~$ bash -c 'TT="o"; echo "l${TT:1}l"' | od -c
> 0000000 l 177 l \n
> 0000004
> ~$ locale charmap
> ISO-8859-15
> ~$ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> ~/install/bash-3.2$ ./bash -c 'TT="o"; echo "l${TT:1}l"' | od -c
> 0000000 l l \n
> 0000003
> ~/install/bash-3.2$ ./bash --version
> GNU bash, version 3.2.25(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
OK. But it doesn't really matter, since 3.2 appears to fix
whatever problem existed.
> (why doesn't the Copyright extend to 2007, BTW?)
An oversight. It should really have been 2006, since bash-3.2 was
released in 2006.
Chet
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