In my bash package:
rpm -qi bash
Name : bash Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.1 Vendor: openSUSE Release : 20.25.1 Build Date: Sun 27 Feb 2011 05:51:30 AM PST Install Date: Sun 22 May 2011 01:28:49 PM PDT Build Host: build31 ... in the 'bash' manpage, under the 'set' option, under the "-e" option, there is a paragraph that starts: "Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a subshell command enclosed in parentheses,..." Later on, there is text: " part of any command executed in a && or ⎪⎪ list ^^ except the command following the final && or ⎪⎪, any ^^ command in a pipeline but the last," The above statement is in error. The unicode character, U+023AA, "Bracket Extension", is not a valid bash operator.
read x<<<"$(echo -n "⎪"|hexdump -e '/1 "%02.2x"')" echo $x
e28eaa
ubytes_to_utf8 $x
U+023AA ^^ not the same as "|" (though they may display the same, one knows when one cuts & pastes, or is viewing on a screen that only supports the common ascii characters...), and 'bracket extension' ain't one of them (or I wouldn't have noticed ;-/ ). Fortunately or unfortunately, some of don't work w/terms that display such as vertical bar, but as an empty square (no character mapped). In my bash package:
rpm -qi bash
Name : bash Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.1 Vendor: openSUSE Release : 20.25.1 Build Date: Sun 27 Feb 2011 05:51:30 AM PST Install Date: Sun 22 May 2011 01:28:49 PM PDT Build Host: build31 ... in the 'bash' manpage, under the 'set' option, under the "-e" option, there is a paragraph that starts: "Exit immediately if a pipeline (which may consist of a single simple command), a subshell command enclosed in parentheses,..." Later on, there is text: " part of any command executed in a && or ⎪⎪ list ^^ except the command following the final && or ⎪⎪, any ^^ command in a pipeline but the last," The above statement is in error. The unicode character, U+023AA, "Bracket Extension", is not a valid bash operator.
read x<<<"$(echo -n "⎪"|hexdump -e '/1 "%02.2x"')" echo $x
e28eaa
ubytes_to_utf8 $x
U+023AA ^^ not the same as "|" (though they may display the same, one knows when one cuts & pastes, or is viewing on a screen that only supports the common ascii characters...), and 'bracket extension' ain't one of them (or I wouldn't have noticed ;-/ ). Fortunately or unfortunately, some of don't work w/terms that display such as vertical bar, but as an empty square (no character mapped).
