On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:21:06AM -, t...@accesslab.com wrote:
> This command sequence concatenates a text string with a $'\NNN' string
> producing an error:
> shopt -s extglob; x="hello"$'\179'; echo "${x//+([^[:print:]])/?}"
>
> EXPECTED RESULT IS -> hello?
>
>
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/loc