Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:35:12PM CEST:
> * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <tr>: Add section.
> Reported by Bruno Haible and Jim Meyering.
> +Not all versions of @command{tr} handle all backslash character escapes.
> +For example, Solaris 10 @command{/usr/ucb/tr} falls over, even though
> +Solaris contains more modern @command{tr} in other locations.
> +Therefore, it is more portable to use octal escapes, even though this
> +ties the result to @acronym{ASCII}, when using @command{tr} to delete
> +newlines or carriage returns.
If you list tr, I'd be inclined to think that the range issue (a-z vs.
[a-z]) should be listed as well.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> +$ @[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo moon; echo light; @} | /usr/ucb/tr -d '\n' ; echo}
> +moo
> +light
This is missing a newline at the end, no?
> +$ @[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo moon; echo light; @} | /usr/bin/tr -d '\n' ; echo}
> +moonlight
> +$ @[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo moon; echo light; @} | /usr/ucb/tr -d '\012' ;
> echo}
> +moonlight
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] example
> +
> @end table
Cheers,
Ralf
