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Bug in tr command

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From: Raj Kambli <rkambli <at> yahoo.com>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Bug in tr command
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:29:33 -0800 (PST)

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Dear GNU,

Not sure if this is bug. But I think first one is legal command that is logically similar to second which works



Thank you,
Raj.


#1-- Error
[raj <at> rajvista ~]$ echo "Raj" | tr "[[:alpha:]]" "[[:lower:]]"
tr: misaligned [:upper:] and/or [:lower:] construct


#2--Ok

[raj <at> rajvista ~]$ echo "Raj" | tr "[[:upper:]]" "[[:lower:]]"
raj
[raj <at> rajvista ~]$ 



[raj <at> rajvista ~]$ tr --version
tr (GNU coreutils) 6.12
Copyright (C) 2008 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.

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