-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Prateek Asthana on 1/21/2008 10:21 PM: | [CHAR*] in SET2, copies of CHAR until length of SET1 | [CHAR*REPEAT] REPEAT copies of CHAR, REPEAT octal if starting with 0 | | Accordingly I tried few things listed below. Please let me know if my | usage of the command is wrong.
Thanks for the report; however this is not a bug. All your examples used a SET1 of length 1, so the length of SET2 did not have to be longer than 1; also SET2 is extended to the length of SET1 as though it implicitly ended in *. For an example where it matters: $ echo test | tr tes '[a*]b' aaba $ echo test | tr tes '[a*1]b' abba - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHle3184KuGfSFAYARAmFrAJ9VV1/BBiKo33Zio8UYgeGBPdY6yACfUIRG DLgYzYlVKmSDihskG0oAnLQ= =ElO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
