annoyances with tr

icewind <[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:36:53 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
input: "abc123abc"
call: tr "abc123abc" -d '[^0-9]'
output:abcabc

regex-rule: "^" is for "negating" the match

output should be "123"