* Daniel Richard G. wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:37:30PM CET: > Here is the real problem---not gawk(1), but indeed tr(1): > > % ( echo foo ; echo bar ) | tr '\015\012' ' ' > foo > bar > % ( echo foo ; echo bar ) | tr '\015\012' ' ' <---- note the two-space > string > foo bar % > > The expected "SET2 is extended to length of SET1 by repeating its last > character as necessary" thing is not happening!
Posix leaves this unspecified, in order to allow for the historical System V semantics. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils