Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > On 06/01/2026 01:34, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 12:10:48AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >>> We should probably use quoted '[:lower:]' and '[:upper:]' in the text >>> above at least. >> For my part, I like that idea. >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 05:16:25PM -0800, Collin Funk wrote: >> >>> Not directly related to your issue, but 'tr' doesn't operate on regular >>> expressions. >> Good point. That's worth a rewording. >> >>> Agreed. I think it is probably best to leave the explanation of quoting >>> to the shell's documentation since it affects so much [2]. >> It still seems like a good idea to mention that this can happen. >> It's a >> way to keep users from being bitten and it's essentially for free by >> mentioning that some of the things tr(1) accepts are of interest to various >> shells. > > Well we have to be careful about exploding the docs, > but a single line is worth it here.
That was my concern, e.g., warning about the difference between "rm -rf *" and "rm -rf '*'", which applies to every program the shell invokes. > I'll apply the attached later, and I've also added an entry at: > https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#tr That looks good to me. Collin
