Hi all
I've a bash related question: I wish to translate one ascii file into
another one, with only translating the ' occurences, to '' (one quote
to two quotes).
That is, the tr command should be well suited for this purpose,
although the results are not as expected.
The command: tr -t "'" "['*2]" < chevaux.txt > chevaux2.txt
leaves the chevaux2.txt file quite identical to chevaux.txt file.
In other words, the quotes are not doubled.
The tr man page says the -t flag make tr behave like SystemV Unix,
while no flag make it comply with the BSD fashion.
BSD fashion: second expression "['*2]" being reduced to the first
expression "'"
SystemV fashion: first expression "'" being reduced(?) to the second
expression "['*2]"
However, it seems impossible to translate one quote into two quotes,
practically.
Why, and where is the error?
Thanks for your responses.
Jean Francois
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