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bug#8587: Curious bug.
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#8587: Curious bug. |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:06:56 +0100 |
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On 29/04/11 20:09, Francois Boisson wrote:
> On a debian squeeze amd64.
>
> address@hidden:~$ echo ABCD Directory | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
> ABCD DIRECTORY
> address@hidden:~$ cd /tmp
> address@hidden:/tmp$ echo ABCD Directory | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
> tr: construit [:upper:] et/ou [:lower:] mal aligné
So the operation is dependent on path.
That shows the shell is interpreting the params,
as demonstrated with:
$ touch l
$ echo [:lower:] [:upper:]
l [:upper:]
So you need to protect the params like:
$ tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
cheers,
Pádraig.