[ILUG] odd behaviour in bash

[Rob Gallagher]

Hi Domenico,

Yeah it only seems to occur in bash, I recently switched from using zsh
- where this problem never appeared. Also installed the bash-completion
scripts recently if that's any help.

rg

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:35:29 +0100
Domenico Gentile <Domenico.Gentile at CardBASE.com> wrote:

> Rob,
> 	It couldn't be something obvious as a faulty keyboard could
> it?
> 
> Is it only in bash and not (say) ksh?
> 
> Dom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Gallagher [mailto:robert at kerna.ie]
> Sent: 25 August 2006 12:51
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] odd behaviour in bash
> 
> 
> Running bash 3.1.17.
> 
> The odd time, when I pass an argument to a command - say for example
> editing a file in vi - the shell will prompt me for further input, as
> if I'd put a semicolon after the first argument. Going back through
> the history, it appears as if that's what bash thinks I did.
> 
> Anyone come across this before?
> 
> rg
> 
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