GNU bug report logs - #10620
Improper handling of newline characters

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Philippe Grégoire <gregoirep <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 10620 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Philippe Grégoire <gregoirep <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: 10620 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10620: Improper handling of newline characters
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:12:12 -0700

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Philippe Grégoire wrote:
> > If I type the command '/usr/bin/printf "hi\b"', the result is as
> > expected -- "h" without a newline character.
> 
> Actually it is "hi\b".  It isn't "h".
> 
>   $ printf "hi\b\n" | od -tx1 -c
>   0000000 68 69 08 0a
>           h   i  \b  \n

Oops.  Cut-n-paste error.  Obviously I meant to say:

  $ printf "hi\b" | od -tx1 -c
  0000000 68 69 08
          h   i  \b

That didn't change anything else however.

Bob
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