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Curious bug.

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Message #24 received at 8587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Alan Curry <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
Cc: Francois Boisson <francois <at> boisson.homeip.net>, 8587 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8587: Curious bug.
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:15:44 -0600

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On 04/29/2011 03:35 PM, Alan Curry wrote:
> Use '[:upper:]' and '[:lower:]' to make the shell treat them as literal
> strings and not globs.
> 
> Switch to zsh for better diagnostics...
> 
>   % echo ABCD Directory | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
>   zsh: no matches found: [:lower:]
>   % echo ABCD Directory | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
>   ABCD DIRECTORY

That's not specific to zsh.  You can get that same behavior in bash:

$ echo [l]
[l]
$ shopt -s failglob
$ echo [l]
bash: no match: [l]

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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