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From: ultra!rmg@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV
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Subject: bug in expand_string("\", 1) ???
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Date: 19 Nov 89 02:59:53 GMT
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With bash 1.04, Sparcstation 1, SunOS 4.0.3:

Stumbled across this, perhaps it's a bug:

When expand_string() is called in decode_prompt_string (file parse.y),
if the sting to be expanded ends in "\", then the expanded string
seems to get some extra stuff appended to it. for example:

Script started on Sat Nov 18 18:55:14 1989
bash$ PS1="\\"
\UUUU				<- just press return here a few times
\UUUU,UUUU
\UUUULUUUU
\UUUUlUUUUUUUUUUUUT
\UUUUlUUUUUUUU
\UUUUNO_PROMPT_VARS=1		<- no with NO_PROMPT_VARS
\
\PS1='bash$ ' 
bash$ exit

script done on Sat Nov 18 18:56:25 1989

This really isn't earth shattering - I use NO_PROMPT_VARS anyway, but
it might bite somewhere else.

  Thanks,

  rmg@ultra.com