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Re: Bug in bash ?


From: kEndE iS tHe bESt <kendelg () iit uni-miskolc hu>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:07:23 +0100 (MET)

Hi all

tcsh>
<eagle>-[9:05] /usr/local/bin>vim `perl -e 'print "/*%s"x9000'`
Word too long.

bash>
<eagle>-[9:06] /usr/local/bin>bash
bash-2.03$ vim `perl -e 'print "/*%s"x9000'`
Segmentation fault

<eagle>-[9:06] /usr/local/bin>uname -a
SunOS eagle 5.8 Generic_108528-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
<eagle>-[9:06] /usr/local/bin>


As you can see after this command shell (bash) is exiting.
It's don't work under tcsh and csh:

tcsh:
mpg123 `perl -e 'print "/*%s"x9000'`
Word too long.


csh:
%mpg123 `perl -e 'print "/*%s"x9000'`
Word too long.
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