I found a problem under Linux with the 'Midnight Commander' (v 4.5.55) and the
new bash 3.2.
Chdirs in subshells do not work with the effects:
1) On every directory change in mc you get a warning 'Could not change directory
...'
mostly corrupting the mc program window.
2) It is not possible to execute programs on files in subdirectories.
I finally tracked this down to a changed behaviour of the builtin echo command.
Namely, the form echo -e '\nnn' with a 3-digit octal number does not work
any longer, only the variant echo -e '\0nnn' with a leading zero.
Don't know it this is a bug or feature ;-)
I do not find this mentioned in any changelog, only hidden in the builtin help:
Bash 3.1 says: \num the character whose ASCII code is NUM (octal)
Bash 3.2 says: \0nnn the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal).
NNN can be 0 to 3 octal digits
The 'program' echo from current GNU coreutils interprets the \nnn form
(correctly?).
Jochen Roderburg
ZAIK/RRZK
University of Cologne
Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/478-7024
D-50931 Koeln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Germany
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