Subject: Re: bug in bash v18
From: [email-masked] (raf)

26 Oct 1997 20:21:15 -0800
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]

>Here's a bug I noticed in Bash v18:

>In some cases, if a back tick expression is used to generate a command name
>and the generated text contains a newline, bash will reply--

>: command not found

>It appears to trying to treat the newline as the command rather than the
>text.

this might have something to do with file systems mounted as != binary.
the backticked command produces CRLF and bash doesn't expect it?

try remounting as = binary and see what hapepns.

raf

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