From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 14:01:39 CET
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:37:29AM -0500, Alfie Costa nicely wrote:
>
> Another /bin/ash feature is that it changes the length of such strings.
> Example2:
> A=\\000\\055\\000\\077
>
>
> Is the mu list the right place for this sort of thing? "Alas, poor Yorick!"
At the beginning, the list was only for that: shell scripting and trick.
About "file" command, do not trust in ash: she is fully buggy. I used "cmp"
to compare string with escape, because ash comparison do not work.
Michele
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