Worth mentioning in documentation

2015-08-06 Thread Juanma
Hello. In section “3.2.4.2 Conditional Constructs” of Bash docs (both in ‘man’ and in the web), at the end, there is an explanation on combining expressions, starting with the use of brackets. There it would be worth to mention that: 1. you must escape the brackets, also inside script files 2.

bash displays strange characters after base64 decoding

2015-08-06 Thread Valentin Schmidt
From: v...@posteo.org To: bug-bash@gnu.org,b...@packages.debian.org Subject: bash displays strange characters after base64 decoding Configuration Information: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCO

Re: Worth mentioning in documentation

2015-08-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:13:30PM +0200, Juanma wrote: > In section ???3.2.4.2 Conditional Constructs??? of Bash docs (both in > ???man??? and in the web), at the end, there is an explanation on combining > expressions, starting with the use of brackets. > > There it would be worth to mention t

Re: bash displays strange characters after base64 decoding

2015-08-06 Thread Dennis Williamson
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Valentin Schmidt wrote: > From: v...@posteo.org > To: bug-bash@gnu.org,b...@packages.debian.org > Subject: bash displays strange characters after base64 decoding > > Configuration Information: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS:

Re: bash displays strange characters after base64 decoding

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Valentin Schmidt wrote: > Subject: bash displays strange characters after base64 decoding > Bash displays strange characters (including command prompt) (see attached > png file) after the execution of the base64 (GNU coreutils 8.21) command > like described as follows: > base64 -d base64.txt This