Re: Solaris test failure for git-1.5.4.4 -- t0021-conversion.sh

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 11, 2008, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20080311173536.GA14687@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <8ec76080803111014w209e1ceep9baf6d5c8c7f6a20@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:14:39PM -0400, Whit Armstrong wrote:

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> Thanks for the suggestion.  I found a few things in trash:
> 
> xs5-trd-p1.grn:warmstro> pwd
> /home/warmstro/download/solaris/git-1.5.4.4/t/trash
> xs5-trd-p1.grn:warmstro> cat rot13.sh
> tr '[a-zA-Z]' '[n-za-mN-ZA-M]'
> xs5-trd-p1.grn:warmstro> tr '[a-zA-Z]' '[n-za-mN-ZA-M]'
> tr: Bad string.
> xs5-trd-p1.grn:warmstro>
> 
> does that help, or do you need a bit more than that?

Looks like /usr/ucb/tr is OK with this, but /usr/bin/tr is not. Both seem to handle the more verbose:

tr \
  'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' \
  'nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM'

just fine.

-Peff