Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:09:12 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> To: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange tr behaviour Message-ID: <20040326110609.O24707@fw.reifenberger.com> In-Reply-To: <4063EE4E.3090102@alumni.rice.edu> References: <20040326085219.T24707@fw.reifenberger.com> <4063EE4E.3090102@alumni.rice.edu>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Jon Noack wrote:
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 02:48:14 -0600
> From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com>
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: strange tr behaviour
>
...
> Short version:
> tr(1) was modified to be POSIX compliant for 5.x. You are seeing
> correct behavior. See the solution below.
>
Thanks all for the hints.
Only that tr(1) states:
...
COMPATIBILITY
System V has historically implemented character ranges using the syntax
``[c-c]'' instead of the ``c-c'' used by historic BSD implementations and
standardized by POSIX. System V shell scripts should work under this
implementation as long as the range is intended to map in another range,
i.e. the command ``tr [a-z] [A-Z]'' will work as it will map the ``[''
character in string1 to the ``['' character in string2. However, if the
...
So I just expected the historic behaviour so that [a-z] map to [A-Z]
as before :-(
Bye/2
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