On Fri, April 1, 2005 5:06 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > 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?
Sure (and the ones from Eric Blake), but not for a couple of weeks as I'm just going away I'm afraid. But both will be (more or less!) top of my todo pile when I return. J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/