GNU bug report logs - #8587
Curious bug.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Francois Boisson <francois <at> boisson.homeip.net>

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Francois Boisson <francois <at> boisson.homeip.net>
Cc: 8587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8587: Curious bug.
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:06:56 +0100

On 29/04/11 20:09, Francois Boisson wrote:
> On a debian squeeze amd64.
> 
> francois <at> totoche:~$ echo ABCD Directory | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] 
> ABCD DIRECTORY
> francois <at> totoche:~$ cd /tmp
> francois <at> totoche:/tmp$ echo ABCD Directory | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] 
> tr: construit [:upper:] et/ou [:lower:] mal aligné

So the operation is dependent on path.
That shows the shell is interpreting the params,
as demonstrated with:

$ touch l
$ echo [:lower:] [:upper:]
l [:upper:]

So you need to protect the params like:

$ tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'

cheers,
Pádraig.
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