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From: Phil Krylov <phil AT mail DOT ru>
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Subject: bash 2.05b BUG?
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:29:30 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

I encounter the following bug:

bash from bsh205bb.zip does not correctly do backtick expansion with dirname,
like:

$ echo `dirname a/a`

$

(outputs an empty string).

Bash from bsh204b.zip works ok.

-- Ph.