Bug#586134: texi2dvi: improper call to grep
On 12.07.10 Stéphane Glondu (steph@glondu.net) wrote:
> Le -10/01/-28163 20:59, Hilmar Preuße a écrit :
Hi,
> > hille@drachi:~$ egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)' a.tex
> > hille@drachi:~$
> > hille@drachi:~$ locale
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > <etc.>
>
> Err...
>
> steph@sayshell:~$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 egrep '^(/|[A-z]:/)' /tmp/test.tex
> egrep: Invalid range end
> steph@sayshell:~$ echo $?
> 2
>
Stupid me: that was my stable system. I can reproduce the problem on
Debian unstable.
> BTW, I'm not sure about the semantics of [A-z]: for example, does `
> (which is between Z and a in ASCII) belong to it? If '[A-Za-z]' is
> meant, then it's probably better to use that (or '[[:alpha:]]').
>
Probably. Unfortunately I don't really understand how the specific
code block works, hence I can't tell.
H.
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