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Re: BUG in /bin/bash


From: bmc () telebase com (Brian Clapper)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:46:44 -0400


"Red" == Red Barchetta <paradox () pegasus rutgers edu> writes:

Their test string "bash -c 'ls\377who'" gave this output on my Solaris
2.5 system:

        bash: ls377who: command not found

Can anyone verify that this is really a problem?

Ernie Pistor

It's a problem on my BSD/OS 2.1 system running bash version 1.14.5(1).
Thankfully, on the BSD variants (at least the ones we use), bash != sh.
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