bug#9719: i found a bug

[Eric Blake]

On 10/10/2011 11:20 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> tag 9719 notabug
> thanks
>
> On 10/10/2011 10:55 AM, Ovear wrote:
> > address@hidden ~]# echo " aa bb cc
> > dd ee "| tr -s [:blank:]
> > a bb cc dd ee
>
> Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug in tr, but a bug in
> your usage of the shell. I suspect that you have a file in the current
> directory that is named with a single character, such that the shell
> glob [:blank:] is expanding to the name of that file.

In fact, I will go so far as to state that the file in question is named 
'a', given that you squeezed the 'a's in your output.  To prove my 
point, compare the output of these commands in the same directory as 
where you filed your bug report:

$ echo [:blank:]
$ echo "[:blank:]"

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