Re: Bug in bash ?

[Caiaphas Pechorin <caiaphas () operamail com>]

Steve Micallef scripsit (Nov 12, 2001 11:40am +1100):

> What version of bash are you running? And on what OS?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Micallef

fwiw, I get the same on Debian Potato
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)

zsh 3.1.9-dev-6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) just gives a 'File name too long' error
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Patryk Chmielewski wrote:
>
> > When I was runnig some programs like vi or mpg123 with parameter with many
> > "%s/*" i have strange results fe.
> > argv@jaskinia:~$ mpg123 `perl -e 'print "/*%s"x9000'`
> > [now i'm seeing prompt to login]
> >
> > 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.
> > %
> >
> > I don't tried it under other shells.
> >
> > --
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