On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Webb Roberts wrote:
> I would suggest a small change to /etc/profile.
>
> /etc/profile is being run by bash, which has pretty substantial filename
> expansion. For example,
>
> echo [a-z]ib
>
> Will respond 'lib' if there is a lib directory. In /etc/profile, there is a
> tr command:
>
> /usr/bin/tr [:upper:] [:lower:]
>
> which is hitting a couple of directories in my $HOME, namely 'r' and 'w'. So
> the tr is getting weird arguments (tr r w r) and complaining. This could be
> fixed by changing that part to
>
> /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
>
> Please let me know if there's a bug tracking system, or similar, to which
> you'd rather me submit this bug report.
No, this is exactly the right place to submit this. I knew there was
something that was making me uneasy about the above code, but couldn't
think of the reason. Nice catch -- thanks for reporting it.
John, I think it's a very good idea -- can you merge this in?
Igor
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