From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:45:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/t6000lib.sh: tr portability fix fix
Message-ID: <20080314214550.GA18326@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <47DAED87.1000408@nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 04:26:31PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> Here's the version with escaped dashes. If you do the sed version, it's
> something to compare to for readability.
>
> [...]
>
> -		   '------------------------------' |
> +		   '\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-' |

Ugh. How about:

  sed 'yA~`!@#$%^&*()_+={}[]|\;:"<>,/? A------------------------------A'

The 'A' delimiter is because in my test, Solaris sed didn't seem to
understand \/ to include the literal '/'. And all of the other
punctuation is already used in the pattern. ;)

-Peff