Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:47:37PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: >> If the dashdash notation is not portable, then >> backslashing each dash also works. i.e. '\-\-\-\-.. > I wonder if there are > systems that will get confused about it being a range. Oh, now I understand _why_ backslashing the dashes worked. When your email arrived I was still trying to figure out why echo hello | tr aeiou '\-\-\-\-\-' correctly converted the e and o into dashes. Because tr must have a way for the user to escape the range notation. I don't use tr very often. -brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
