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--- Begin Message ---Package: bash Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal The "-a arrray" option to the "read" builtin causes junk characters (ascii 1, ^A) to get inserted into escaped portions of strings. $ echo "hello\ world" | while read a ; do echo $a ; done | hd 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello world.| 0000000c $ echo "hello\ world" | while read -a a ; do echo ${a[0]} ; done | hd 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 01 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello. world.| 0000000d Notice the extra 01 after "hello" in the second dump. -jim -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 3.1.13 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand bash recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 5.0-6 On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:27:42 -0400 Jim Paris <[email protected]> wrote:Package: bash Version: 3.1-4 Severity: normal The "-a arrray" option to the "read" builtin causes junk characters (ascii 1, ^A) to get inserted into escaped portions of strings. $ echo "hello\ world" | while read a ; do echo $a ; done | hd 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello world.| 0000000c $ echo "hello\ world" | while read -a a ; do echo ${a[0]} ; done | hd 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 01 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello. world.| 0000000d Notice the extra 01 after "hello" in the second dump.This issue does not seem to affect version 5.0-6 and later of bash. $ echo "hello\ world" | while read a ; do echo $a ; done | hd 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello world.| 0000000c $ echo "hello\ world" | while read -a a ; do echo ${a[0]} ; done |hd 00000000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a |hello world.| 0000000c Please reopen this bug if you can still reproduce this issue. Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci
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