Re: [coreutils: tr] \55 \133 \135 taken as syntax tokens

[Jim Meyering]

Stephane Chazelas <address@hidden> wrote:
> (coreutils 5.2.1, on Debian Linux, C locale).
>
> $ echo mmm | tr 'a\55z' a
> aaa
> (expected mmm)
>
> $ echo abcd | tr 'abcd' '\133m*\135'
> mmmm
> (expected [m*])
>
> If I understand
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/tr.html
> correctly,
>
> \55, \133, \135 should be treated as values to placed into the
> arrays and shouldn't have the special meaning they have once
> expanded.

Thanks for the nice bug report.
That's been fixed `upstream' for six months.
Yep, we're overdue for a new release.