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Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Variable passed to system contains garbage characters |
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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:41:23 -0500 |
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Patrick Nagelschmidt wrote:
> Machine Type: i686-redhat-linux-gnu
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> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
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> Description:
> The script below fails on my box with the following output:
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> 1197676800
> date: invalid date `1970-01-01 \033[?1034h1197676800 sec'
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> So for some reason the value passed to date got a nasty prefix.
I can't reproduce this on fedora core 6, which is the closest Linux
box. I suspect this is prompt string or PROMPT_COMMAND related, so a
transcript of running this script with `bash -x' would help.
Chet
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