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Re: (Partly solved)Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?



On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:47:00PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:12:57 +0100, Pál Csányi wrote:
> > I use
> > GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> > in Debian Etch and I get this when I use history:
> > 
> > cd "`echo -e '\057'`"
> > 
> > What is this
> 
> It seems to be a complicated way to do
> 
> cd /
> 
> (\057 is "/", the backticks `` substitute the output of the echo
>  command.)
> 
> >              and how can I get rid of it?
> 
> Remove the line from ~/.bash_history if it bothers you that much.

I have seen this in the past when running mc, but not latelly (maybe the 
bug was fixed in unstable?).

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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