Re: 'tr' Bug

[Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>]

On 03/11/2011 10:28 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> echo /opt/IBN/df | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
>
> produces:
>
>     /opt/xxx/df
>
> not:
>
>     /opt/ibn/df
>
> Both Linux and FreeBSD produce correct results.  Is this a known
> 'tr' bug?

$ env|grep LANG
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[10:38:15] rthompso@raker>~
$ uname -a
Linux raker 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 4 15:04:48 EST 2011 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel 
GNU/Linux
[10:38:18] rthompso@raker>~
$ echo /opt/IBN/df | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
/opt/IBN/df
[10:38:22] rthompso@raker>~
$ tr --version
tr (GNU coreutils) 8.7
Packaged by Gentoo (8.7 (p1))
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jim Meyering.
[10:38:25] rthompso@raker>~

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