So i have been told by several kind souls. Thanks.
Now i have to go through a dozen hosts looking for all the shell scripts where i may have used tr with unprotected character ranges. Who knows when they might blow up and do something terrible? Good thing i reported this 'bug'. Regards, Bill On Thu, 9 May 2002, John P. Rouillard wrote: > > Bill Becker said: > >biteme:~$ mkdir temp > biteme:~$ cd temp > >biteme:~/temp$ echo XoX | tr [A-Z] [a-z] > >xox > >biteme:~/temp$ touch m > >biteme:~/temp$ echo XoX | tr [A-Z] [a-z] > >mom > > Don't forget that [a-z] is only the literal character [, a, -, z, ], > if there is no file in the directory that matches the [a-z] glob. In > your case, the single character file 'm' matches, and the shell turns > [a-z] into m, and you see the result. > > Answer, use '' around shell metacharacters. > > > echo XoX | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' > xox > > works for me. > > > -- rouilj > John Rouillard > =============================================================================== > My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. > _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
