Re: Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-24 Thread Jochen Roderburg
Zitat von Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, I am discouraged that applications were not written to use the > portable `printf'. Use of `echo' in portable applications has been > deprecated for years. > > It's hindsight, of course, but had mc been written (or modified later) > to use pri

Re: Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-22 Thread Chet Ramey
Jochen Roderburg wrote: > Indeed there it is. Actually, I did not suspect a changelog in a directory > named > CWRU and had not looked there ;-) Sorry. It's always been there. > Let's see, if I understood it correct now: To adhere to the above mentioned > standards you no longer allow octal d

Re: Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Chet Ramey on 10/21/2006 11:52 AM: >> Jochen Roderburg wrote: >>> >>> I finally tracked this down to a changed behaviour of the builtin echo >>> command. >>> >>> Namely, the formecho -e '\nnn' with a 3-digit octal number does not >>> work

Re: Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-22 Thread Jochen Roderburg
Zitat von Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jochen Roderburg wrote: > > Namely, the formecho -e '\nnn' with a 3-digit octal number does not > work > > any longer, only the variant echo -e '\0nnn' with a leading zero. > > > > Don't know it this is a bug or feature ;-) > > It's intentional.

Re: Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Adding bug-coreutils to CC] According to Chet Ramey on 10/21/2006 11:52 AM: > Jochen Roderburg wrote: >> >> I finally tracked this down to a changed behaviour of the builtin echo >> command. >> >> Namely, the formecho -e '\nnn' with a 3-digit

Re: Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-21 Thread Chet Ramey
Jochen Roderburg wrote: > I found a problem under Linux with the 'Midnight Commander' (v 4.5.55) and the > new bash 3.2. > Chdirs in subshells do not work with the effects: > 1) On every directory change in mc you get a warning 'Could not change > directory > ...' >mostly corrupting the mc pro

Problem with echo -e in bash 3.2

2006-10-21 Thread Jochen Roderburg
I found a problem under Linux with the 'Midnight Commander' (v 4.5.55) and the new bash 3.2. Chdirs in subshells do not work with the effects: 1) On every directory change in mc you get a warning 'Could not change directory ...' mostly corrupting the mc program window. 2) It is not possible to