Re: BUG in /bin/bash

[arthur () support psi com (Arthur Hyun)]

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:35:18 -0400,
Red Barchetta <paradox () pegasus rutgers edu> wrote:
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 |Their test string "bash -c 'ls\377who'" gave this output on my Solaris 2.5
 |system:
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 |        bash: ls377who: command not found
 |
 |Can anyone verify that this is really a problem?
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try something like this:  bash -c `/bin/echo 'ls\0377who'`

\3 == 3, so 'ls\377who' is 8 chars.  but "/bin/echo 'ls\0377who'"
turns into 6 chars because the echo interprets \0377 as an
octal escape for a single char.


if you run it under bash, then you need some more quotes to get
the full effect because the top level bash steals the \377:

    bash -c "`/bin/echo 'ls\0377who'`"

                                                -arthur