On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:36, Tim Mooney wrote: [...] > I meant to mention this earlier -- Have you tested this *without* the > extra leading 0? I've always seen the escape sequences documented as > > \NNN octal character NNN > > but you have 4 digits, which might mean that the sequence is not being > interpreted as you expect. (Not sure why we are having a shell discussion on rpm-list, but anyway...) This was another thing that changed between a minor version upgrade in bash at one point (the interpretation of octal codes changed to match POSIX). A leading zero after a backslash in echo strings caused the next three digits to be read in the later version (which may have been the RH 9 one -- my memory is hazy), rather than just reading three digits in total. An absolutely criminal change for such a minor version increase, since it broke any number of scripts that were previously using well-documented features. Such is life. :-( malcolm _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
