On 9/22/17 12:53 PM, DeDominic, Anthony wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 12 > Release Status: release > > Description: > > an octal/hex value of ctrl-a (\001) expanded by a quoted string > expansion appears to expand twice when in a process substitution. not > all octals expand twice however, such as \002
Thanks for the report. This was fixed back in February as the result of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-02/msg00033.html. The fix is in the bash devel git branch (commit 514049fa8e2404e9159d27e9b52f413b987c82e1) on savannah.gnu.org. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/