From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Sep 10 06:19:13 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA22404 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 06:19:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA22398 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 06:19:09 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA20245; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 15:12:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA19192; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 15:12:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA14341; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 15:08:11 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509101308.PAA14341@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Crontab and the % character To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 15:08:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <95Sep8.154737pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Sep 8, 95 03:47:34 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 522 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Fenner wrote: > > >If I use the %'s by themselves then it interprets them as special control > >characters, but if I put a \ in front of each, the command is interpreted > >literally (i.e. "\%B \%b"). > > This is a bug. Try this patch. It turns "\%" into "%", "\\" into "\", > and leaves "\*" (where * is any character other than % or \) alone. Thanks, commited. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)