-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Nikos Alexandris on 1/23/2008 3:12 PM: | Hi! | | I get following strange output when I try to... : | | $ tr "[a-z]" "A-Z" | [After typing "hi i", I get:] | IJ J
This is not a bug. Character ranges in tr do not need surrounding brackets, so you've just done: tr "[abcdefghi...yz]" \ ~ "ABCDEFGHIJ...Z" converting 'h' to 'I' (and deleting 'z'). However, since upper-casing and lower-casing can be locale-dependent, a-z is not always adequate to specify lower-case characters, and it is safer to do: tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" - -- 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 iD8DBQFHmAp384KuGfSFAYARAqwQAKCXziwn5NWLL85Hwsz8DYquJqKf1ACgn2Q1 kX8tTSD9SSLYEDBJWQLSTs8= =nRMl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
