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Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:22:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: Change to /etc/profile (Attn: base-files maintainer)
From: "John Morrison" <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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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.


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