echo expansion and POSIX compatibility RFE; bug report

2006-03-20 Thread L Walsh
Might I put forth a suggestion? I would like to suggest that the "0" be required after a "\" when expanding octal or hex values. It would be consistent to allow hex values by using "\0xHH", but it is confusingto POSIX compatible scripts for "\1" to be accepted as an octal sequence. Perhaps the

source Q: bash/doc vs. bash-doc ?

2006-03-16 Thread L Walsh
What is supposed to be the difference between the directories of bash-release/doc and the separate tar, bash-release-doc ? It seems like -- looking through my local dist, it basically uses the former for the notes and documentation and don't bother with the separate "-doc" tar. It sorta looks li