On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:43:13AM +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 04:56:53PM +0100, alexander.kra...@basf.com wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:17:03PM +0100, alexander.kra...@basf.com > > wrote: > > > > > > > - sidadm="`echo $SID | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`adm" > > > > + sidadm="`echo $SID | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`adm" > > > > > > AFAIK, [:upper:] corresponds to (in English) A-Z, i.e. it > > > shouldn't be expanded by the shell. As opposed to [[:upper:]] or > > > [A-Z]. Are you sure that this needs fixing? > > > > Yes, I'm sure: > > > > a...@ncc1701d:~> echo "SMALL" | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] > > small > > a...@ncc1701d:~> touch u > > a...@ncc1701d:~> echo "SMALL" | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] > > tr: misaligned [:upper:] and/or [:lower:] construct > > a...@ncc1701d:~> echo "SMALL" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' > > small > > OK. It was unexpected to me that shell and tr differ in > expansion. It turns out that bash treats [:upper:] as a set.
Even if it would not, if a matching files were present, it would still expand to those files before being passed as arguments to tr. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: Linux-HA-Dev@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
