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 -- ``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/