Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > Bash Version: 3.2 > Patch Level: 15 > Release Status: release > > Description: > If a function f set a variable v to $'\001' then type f or set > add a second \001 in it's output. Hence v becomes $'\001\001'. > You'll need to use a hex viewer (in the example xxd) to see it.
Thanks for the report. It's a problem of converting from an internal to external form. It will be fixed in the next bash release. 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