Package: bash Version: 3.2-2 Severity: normal Hi,
the builtin command echo -e does no longer expand octal escape sequences that do not start with zero. See: zorro[~]$ echo -e '\0172' z zorro[~]$ echo -e '\172' \172 zorro[~]$ ,----[ bash manpage ] | echo interprets the following escape sequences: | | \0nnn the eight-bit character whose value is the octal value nnn | (zero to three octal digits) | \nnn the eight-bit character whose value is the octal value nnn | (one to three octal digits) `---- Nikolaus -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 4.0.3 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20080419-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages bash recommends: pn bash-completion <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
