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Re: [coreutils: tr] \55 \133 \135 taken as syntax tokens
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [coreutils: tr] \55 \133 \135 taken as syntax tokens |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:33:13 +0100 |
Stephane Chazelas <address@hidden> wrote:
> (coreutils 5.2.1, on Debian Linux, C locale).
>
> $ echo mmm | tr 'a\55z' a
> aaa
> (expected mmm)
>
> $ echo abcd | tr 'abcd' '\133m*\135'
> mmmm
> (expected [m*])
>
> If I understand
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/tr.html
> correctly,
>
> \55, \133, \135 should be treated as values to placed into the
> arrays and shouldn't have the special meaning they have once
> expanded.
Thanks for the nice bug report.
That's been fixed `upstream' for six months.
Yep, we're overdue for a new release.