bugGNU Core Utilities - Bugs: bug #14937, tr: omissions from manpage/info

 
 

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bug #14937: tr: omissions from manpage/info

Submitter:  Richard Neill <richardneill>
Submitted:  Wed 09 Nov 2005 04:07:07 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 12 Feb 2006 08:51:15 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the suggestion.
I've fixed that in CVS doc/coreutils.texi.
Here's how it reads, now:

Backslash escapes
     The following backslash escape sequences are recognized:
  
    `\a'
          Control-G.
...

     While a backslash followed by a character not listed above is
     interpreted as that character, the backslash also effectively
     removes any special significance, so it is useful to escape `[',
     `]', `*', and `-'.

Jim Meyering <meyering>
Group administrator
Wed 09 Nov 2005 04:07:07 AM UTC, original submission:  

The documentation for tr does not state which characters are considered to be special. In particular, it doesn't mention that
 "-" is special (yes, I know it should be obvious because it is in a range), and the \- is NOT included in the list of backslash-escapable items (in man tr).

I think that a line on:
  tr considers the following characters to be special: -*[]
would be helpful


Richard Neill <richardneill>

 

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2006-02-12 meyering StatusNone Fixed

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