Re: potential tr bug

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:06:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Grant Ballard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can't get tr to redirect to a file or pipe to another command.
> Is there something I'm doing wrong (or a version that handles this better)?
>
> specific command syntax
> tr -d \" > test.txt
>
> INPUT:
> "d5902589"
>
> desired OUTPUT:
> d5902589

That works fine for me.
What shell are you using?
I'm using bash.

If you're using a substandard shell, it might
help to write it like this instead:

  tr -d '"' > test.txt