Hi Alexandre!
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have coreutils 5.2.1 and texinfo 4.8 installed. > > Two notes regarding tr's documentation: > > 1) "man tr" points to "info coreutils tr" but this commands > brings me to the node "Trailing slashes" not to "tr invocation". That is fixed in the stable coreutils-5.93. Now it suggests `info tr'. > 2) Node "Character sets" of the tr documentation states that > > GNU `tr' does not support the System V syntax that uses square > brackets to enclose ranges. Translations specified in that format > sometimes work as expected, since the brackets are often > transliterated to themselves. However, they should be avoided > because they sometimes behave unexpectedly. For example, `tr -d > '[0-9]'' deletes brackets as well as digits. > > however node "Putting the tools together" teaches you bad habits > with many examples such as > > $ tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < whats.gnu | tr -cd '[A-Za-z0-9_ \012]' | > > tr -s '[ ]' '\012' | ... Those have been fixed, too. Thanks for taking the time. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
