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Re: tr command bug
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: tr command bug |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:49:09 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> According to Prateek Asthana on 1/21/2008 10:21 PM:
> | [CHAR*] in SET2, copies of CHAR until length of SET1
> | [CHAR*REPEAT] REPEAT copies of CHAR, REPEAT octal if starting with 0
> |
> | Accordingly I tried few things listed below. Please let me know if my
> | usage of the command is wrong.
>
> Thanks for the report; however this is not a bug. All your examples used
> a SET1 of length 1,
The length of [;] is three. The brackets have no special meaning here.
Andreas.
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