After upgrading from Red Hat 6.2 to Red Hat 9, parts of my .bashrc
produce different results than before. In particular, backslash
seems to no longer be recognized within double quotes. This
sequence:
MY_HN=`hostname | sed -e 's/\..*//' `
MY_TITLES="\0033]2;$MY_HN\0007\0033]1;$MY_HN\0007"
/bin/echo "${MY_TITLES}\c"
which used to set the xterm window and icon titles, now just echos
the uninterpreted string:
\0033]2;cricket\0007\0033]1;cricket\0007\c
The difference is not in xterm, because the titles do get set correctly
when I rlogin to an older system from an RH9 xterm.
How can I restore the previous behavior? Changing the .bashrc is
probably not a viable approach, because it still needs to work on
a variety of systems, some of which have older versions of bash.
This is the RH9 version:
[cricket : phutchis]$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
These are some of the other versions:
[methane : phutchis]$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 1.14.5(1)
[riparian : phutchis]$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386--freebsd3.3)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[stratus : phutchis]$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[fanno : phutchis]$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.7)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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