It seems that some implementations of tr don't like a replacement string of '-----...'; they try to find the double-dash option "---...". Instead of this pipeline of tr and sed invocations, just use a single perl invocation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- I didn't see any complaints about increasing the use of perl in earlier patches, so hopefully nobody minds. I think this is more portable, more readable, and probably more efficient. t/t6000lib.sh | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/t6000lib.sh b/t/t6000lib.sh index b69f7c4..c0baaa5 100755 --- a/t/t6000lib.sh +++ b/t/t6000lib.sh @@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ check_output() # from front and back. name_from_description() { - tr "'" '-' | - tr '~`!@#$%^&*()_+={}[]|\;:"<>,/? ' \ - '------------------------------' | - tr -s '-' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sed "s/^-*//;s/-*\$//" + perl -pe ' + s/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/-/g; + s/-+/-/g; + s/-$//; + s/^-//; + y/A-Z/a-z/; + ' } -- 1.5.4.4.686.g851d -- 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