[11062] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: tr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petr Adamek)
Sun Sep 26 18:27:17 1993
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 93 18:27:03 EDT
From: Petr Adamek <adamek@MIT.EDU>
System name: e51-007-9
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
tr man page says:
Options:
...
-s Squeezes succession of a character in string1 do one in output
What's wrong:
I type:
%tr -s x
abcdxxxefgh
^D
and output is:
abcdefgh
What should have happened:
while it should be:
abcdxefgh
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
tr(1) man page
