[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] possibly wrong use of tr in vidix check
Nico Sabbi
nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it
Thu Jun 7 22:37:57 CEST 2007
Alban Bedel wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:33:05 +0300
> Ismail Dönmez <ismail at pardus.org.tr> wrote:
>
>
>>On Thursday 07 June 2007 01:44:29 Nico Sabbi wrote:
>>
>>>tr seems to be used incorrectly in the vidix check in configure.
>>>Attached patch fixes my problem (untranslated lowercases).
>>>If no one objects I'll commit it tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Nico
>>
>>Makes no difference here :
>>
>>[~]> echo abc | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
>>ABC
>>
>>[~]> echo abc | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
>>ABC
>>
>>[~]> tr --version
>>tr (GNU coreutils) 6.9
>
>
> It will do a difference if there is a file with a one letter name. If there
> is for ex. a file named 'b' in the directory the first form will expand to
> "tr 'b' '[A-Z]'" and "echo abc | tr [a-z] [A-Z]" will give "a[b".
> Note that the [] are part of the set with GNU tr, so ideally they could be
> removed (ie. tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'). However i don't know how portable such a form
> is.
>
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