Re: tr portability

Bruno Haible <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:21:47 +0200

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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > In GNU gettext, many tests use "tr -d '\r'" since 2007 already, and no one
> > ever has reported a problem with it.
> 
> But does it fail fatally when it doesn't work?  tests/parser.sh in
> libtasn1 did

It leads to a test failure, yes, because it removed all 'r's from the
test result. But only on Solaris 10 and only when /usr/ucb comes too
early in $PATH.

Bruno