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Re: Bug in autoconf 2.62 with old GNU awk
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'Ralf Wildenhues' |
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Re: Bug in autoconf 2.62 with old GNU awk |
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Date: |
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:37:47 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
* Daniel Richard G. wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:37:30PM CET:
> Here is the real problem---not gawk(1), but indeed tr(1):
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> % ( echo foo ; echo bar ) | tr '\015\012' ' '
> foo
> bar
> % ( echo foo ; echo bar ) | tr '\015\012' ' ' <---- note the two-space
> string
> foo bar %
>
> The expected "SET2 is extended to length of SET1 by repeating its last
> character as necessary" thing is not happening!
Posix leaves this unspecified, in order to allow for the historical
System V semantics.
Cheers,
Ralf