On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:25:36AM +0200, Martin Natano wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 07:11:46PM -0400, Christian Heckendorf wrote: > > Hi, > > After reading the man page description of tr -s, I couldn't understand > > what it meant to "squeeze" characters. It could be that 'squeeze' is a > > mnemonic for '-s' but it's not helpful as a technical explanation. > > Your diff removes information: One of those repeating characters > remains. I don't see what's wrong with the current description; it seems > perfectly legible to me, as long as you know the meaning of the word > "squeeze". It can also mean something like "compress", which is what -s > does. > > natano > >
i totally agree. jmc
