On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr writes: > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >> Second thought ... it's interpreting the '-' as an option? Does this > >> work: > >> ... | tr 'a_b' 'a-b' > > > YES! > > Patch applied per Peter's suggestion. Doesn't that do something entirely different? The original purpose was to convert underscores to hyphens, but it's doing something else entirely. $ echo test_string | tr 'a_b' 'a-b' testbstring On my system I need to at least escape the hyphen again: $ echo test_string | tr 'a_b' 'a\-b' test-string Character classes didn't do it for me: [_] -> [-] Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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