Re: Comand token too long?

[Karl Hammar]

Francisco Vila:
> 2011/8/13 Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:
> > Hello, does anybody what this error means?
> >
> > cd Documentation/
> > cd ./out-www; texi2pdf -I ./out-www -I ../out -I .. -I .. --quiet  
> > notation.texi
> > egrep: Invalid range end
> 
> This is caused by line 1713 of /usr/bin/texi2dvi  (GNU Texinfo 4.13)
> 1.135 in my system,
> 
>  # If the COMMAND_LINE_FILENAME is not absolute (e.g., --debug.tex),
>   # prepend `./' in order to avoid that the tools take it as an option.
>   echo "$command_line_filename" | $EGREP '^(/|[A-z]:/)' >&6 \
>   || command_line_filename="./$command_line_filename"
> 
> and [A-z] is an invalid range.

Works here:

$ echo '/usr/' | egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
/usr/
$ echo 'B:/' | egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
B:/
$ echo 'z:/' | egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
z:/
$ echo 'bin/' | egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)'
$ egrep --version | head -1
GNU grep 2.6.3
$ echo $LANG 
C
$

[A-z] is a valid range in the C locale. Maybe you have a locale with a
sorting order where z comes before A.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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