Re: Any Problems with HP-UX V.10 ?
From: Chuck Hamilton <chuckh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: 1995/09/12
Message-ID: <434281$7gf_at_ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>#1/1
Date: 1995/09/12
Message-ID: <434281$7gf_at_ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>#1/1
Per-Arne Aas <perarne_at_oslonett.no> wrote:
>I have discovered a bug in the "tr" command. The command have problems
>when converting the character "\". It has been posted a service-request
>for the problem.
\ is the escape character in unix. If you want to translate the \ character you need to specify the octal equivelant \134. I don't have HP-UX v10.0 to test with but it works in v9.04.
Example: tr "\134" "*"
-- Chuck Hamilton chuckh_at_ix.netcom.com Incoming fire has the right of way!Received on Tue Sep 12 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST