diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 31 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 193d5f1f2..821f2e6fe 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -5007,37 +5007,6 @@ square brackets from interpretation by a shell. @end itemize -@node Warnings in tr -@subsection Warning messages - -@vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT -Setting the environment variable @env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} turns off the -following warning and error messages, for strict compliance with -@acronym{POSIX}. Otherwise, the following diagnostics are issued: - -@enumerate - -@item -When the @option{--delete} option is given but @option{--squeeze-repeats} -is not, and @var{set2} is given, @sc{gnu} @command{tr} by default prints -a usage message and exits, because @var{set2} would not be used. -The @acronym{POSIX} specification says that @var{set2} must be ignored in -this case. Silently ignoring arguments is a bad idea. - -@item -When an ambiguous octal escape is given. For example, @samp{\400} -is actually @samp{\40} followed by the digit @samp{0}, because the -value 400 octal does not fit into a single byte. - -@end enumerate - -@sc{gnu} @command{tr} does not provide complete BSD or System V compatibility. -For example, it is impossible to disable interpretation of the @acronym{POSIX} -constructs @samp{[:alpha:]}, @samp{[=c=]}, and @samp{[c*10]}. Also, @sc{gnu} -@command{tr} does not delete zero bytes automatically, unlike traditional -Unix versions, which provide no way to preserve zero bytes. - - @node expand invocation @section @command{expand}: Convert tabs to spaces |