[FFmpeg-devel] configure script and "toupper()", Solaris vs FreeBSD

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:12:45AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:45:41PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > usleepless at gmail.com writes:
> > 
> > > toupper(){
> > >     echo "$@" | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
> > > }
> > 
> > This will break horribly if run in a directory containing a file with
> > a single-letter name.
> 
> Indeed, this fails to work, but what is happening?  I'm puzzled...

read the fine man bash about Pathname Expansion

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