From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:00:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/t6000lib.sh: tr portability fix fix
Message-ID: <47DAE78B.6050602@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <20080314205415.GA17728@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:47:37PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
>> If the dashdash notation is not portable, then
>> backslashing each dash also works. i.e. '\-\-\-\-..

> I wonder if there are
> systems that will get confused about it being a range.

Oh, now I understand _why_ backslashing the dashes worked. When your
email arrived I was still trying to figure out why

  echo hello | tr aeiou '\-\-\-\-\-'

correctly converted the e and o into dashes. Because tr must have a
way for the user to escape the range notation. I don't use tr very
often.

-brandon