Re: tr [:lower:]

[Shineru <theshinneru@gmail.com>]

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Thanks!

вт, 31 авг. 2021 г. в 11:39, Phil Pennock <
zsh-workers+phil.pennock@spodhuis.org>:

> On 2021-08-31 at 11:04 +1000, Shineru wrote:
> > zsh 5.8.1. Arch GNU/Linux
> >
> > zsh: echo "hello" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
> > zsh: no matches found: [:lower:]
>
> setopt nonomatch
> or:  unsetopt nomatch
> but: both of these are dangerous, because there's a real quoting issue
> here.
>
> % touch l p
> % echo "hello" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
> heppo
> bash$ echo "hello" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
> heppo
>
> Without quoting,
>   [:lower:] matches any of: l o w e r :
>   [:upper:] matches any of: u p e r :
> so the globbing turns the pipeline into:
>   echo "hello" | tr "l" "p"
>
> By default, zsh complains about unmatched patterns, rather than letting
> them fall through silently.  Falling through leads to this sort of
> "foot-gun" construct, where shells encourage you to do something which
> "only works as long as X is not true", instead of having reliable code.
>
> So you want, for safety, in any shell which resembles POSIX at all:
>
>   echo 'hello' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
>
> (This probably belongs on zsh-users.)
>
> -Phil
>

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