On 11/24/17 3:17 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Here's another corner-case bug with assigning $* to a variable (i.e.:
> foo=$*). If IFS is empty, the $* expansion removes any $'\001' (^A) and
> $'\177' (DEL) characters. If IFS contains a value, each ^A and DEL
> character is prefixed by another $'\001'. If IFS is unset, the bug does
> not show up at all.
Thanks for the report. I'll fix this for the next version.
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