Re: bug report

[Bob Proulx]

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, GNU General Contact Address wrote:
> 
> > Remember to include the version number, machine architecture, input
> > files, and any other information needed to reproduce the bug: your
> > input, what you expected, what you got, and why it is wrong.

And you did an excellent job with that!  But...

> I think there's a bug with [[:...:]] handling in find.

You did not send this report to <address@hidden> which would
deal with find.  It came to bug-textutils instead.  If you would
forward your report to bug-findutils it would be most appreciated.

Thanks
Bob

> 26/0 address@hidden:/tmp/foo > uname -a
> Linux pc 2.4.7 #1 SMP Sun Jul 22 23:06:18 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
> 27/0 address@hidden:/tmp/foo > find --version
> GNU find version 4.1
> 34/0 address@hidden:/tmp/foo > ls -b
> total 0
>    0 \001     0 1     0 :     0 a
> 35/0 address@hidden:/tmp/foo > find . -name '[[:cntrl:]]' -print0 | xargs
> -0 ls -b
> ./\001  ./:
> 36/0 address@hidden:/tmp/foo > find . -name '[[:alpha:]]' -print0 | xargs
> -0 ls -b
> ./:  ./a
> 37/0 address@hidden:/tmp/foo > find . -name '[[:alnum:]]' -print0 | xargs
> -0 ls -b
> ./1  ./:  ./a
> 
> It should not find the file named ':' in those searches.  It seems
> '[[:cntrl:]]', '[[:alpha:]]' and '[[:alnum:]]' match ':', when they
> shouldn't.
> 
> This 'bug' does not extend to 'tr':
> 
> 53/0 address@hidden:/tmp > tr --version
> tr (GNU textutils) 2.0
> Written by Jim Meyering.
> 
> Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> 54/0 address@hidden:/tmp > cat -v testfile
> ^A : a 1
> 
> 55/0 address@hidden:/tmp > tr '[[:cntrl:]]' b < testfile  | cat -v - ; echo
> b : a 1bb
> 56/0 address@hidden:/tmp > tr '[[:alpha:]]' b < testfile  | cat -v - ; echo
> ^A : b 1
> 
> 
> 57/0 address@hidden:/tmp > tr '[[:alnum:]]' b < testfile  | cat -v - ; echo
> ^A : b b
> 
> -- 
> -eben             address@hidden           http://home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar/
> TAURUS:  You will never find true happiness - what you gonna do, cry about
> it?  The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff and then
> go back to sleep.  -- Weird Al, _Your Horoscope for Today_
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bug-textutils mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils