Re: Filename expansion cannot cope with ^A (literal control A)

[Nicholas Clark]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:58:29PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Machine Type: i386-pc-freebsd3.0
> > 
> > Bash Version: 2.02
> > Patch Level: 1
> > Release Status: release
> 
> Any problems related to this report have almost certainly been fixed
> in the four years since bash-2.02.1 was released.  I didn't have any
> trouble with your example using bash-2.05a, for instance. 

Odd. I do. The original problem was on a Redhat machine at work. I don't
trust Redhat (and the mail there is disfunctional) so I sent it from a
FreeBSD box, running bashbug there. Here on a Debian machine:

$ touch ^A^A
$ ls -l ^A?
ls: `?: No such file or directory
$ ls -l ?^A
ls: ?`: No such file or directory
$ ls -l ??
-rw-rw-r--    1 nick     nick            0 Jun 26 20:57 ??
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (arm-unknown-linux-gnu)
Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ ls -l ^A^A
-rw-rw-r--    1 nick     nick            0 Jun 26 20:57 ??

Nicholas Clark
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