Re: [Bug-tar] [GNU tar 1.26] testsuite: 6 failed

[Ray Lauff]

No, it doesn't look like it works correctly with newlines:

sun%>   od -c nums.txt  # basic datafile 

0000000   1  \n   2  \n   3  \n   4  \n

0000010

sun%>   tr '\n' '\0' < nums.txt | od -c - # fails

0000000   1  \n   2  \n   3  \n   4  \n

0000010

sun%>   tr '\n' '5' < nums.txt | od -c - # fails

0000000   1  \n   2  \n   3  \n   4  \n

0000010

sun%>   tr '1' '5' < nums.txt | od -c - # works

0000000   5  \n   2  \n   3  \n   4  \n

0000010

sun%>  

I'll have to see if I can do an upgrade on it.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

ray

On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Ray,

Thanks for your report.  It looks like the tr command on your system
cannot handle newlines.  Can you please check whether the following
command

  tr '\n' '\0'

transforms newlines into ASCII zero characters?

Regards,
Sergey