GNU bug report logs - #20474
tr command

Previous Next

Full log

Message #10 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Joseph Piette <Joe.Piette <at> cantire.com>, 20474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20474: tr command
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 18:06:56 +0100

tag 20474 notabug
close 20474
stop

On 30/04/15 17:31, Joseph Piette wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> When transferring files from the Windows environment to the Linux environment we execute a script to remove the \cr characters. The script performs a simple
> 
> tr -d '\r'  < input  > output
> 
> Recently we were testing with files that contained a string with a single quote – “Paym’t”
> What the tr command is doing is not only removing the “\cr” characters but also the single quote. What we ended up with was “Paymt”

I'm guessing that you're using a unibyte locale
and that your tr command is using curly quotes rather that single quotes.
That in turn is passed by the shell to tr which will then delete such curly quotes?

Pádraig.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.