* gnanny: tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
@ 2018-12-31 12:32 L A Walsh
2018-12-31 14:47 ` Eliot Moss
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From: L A Walsh @ 2018-12-31 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
This is being run on cygwin w/bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release.
Have a table of windows files, sample line (it's all 1 line):
> cat test
D,"c:\windows\system32\FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20
03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x04480000,Unknown,0x00019000,Not
Loaded,1.1.6000.16384,1.1.6000.16384,6.1,9.0,6.1,6.1
I run 'tr' to switch around the backslashes to slashes:
> tr '\' '/' <test
tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
D,"c:/windows/system32/FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20
03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x04480000,Unknown,0x00019000,Not
Loaded,1.1.6000.16384,1.1.6000.16384,6.1,9.0,6.1,6.1
1) First question: what unescaped backslash? The '\n is escaped via the
surrounding quotes.
2) how should one escape it?
Is this a bug?
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* Re: gnanny: tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
2018-12-31 12:32 gnanny: tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable L A Walsh
@ 2018-12-31 14:47 ` Eliot Moss
2018-12-31 15:01 ` Brian Inglis
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eliot Moss @ 2018-12-31 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 12/31/2018 5:58 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
> This is being run on cygwin w/bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release.
>
>
> Have a table of windows files, sample line (it's all 1 line):
>> Â cat test
> D,"c:\windows\system32\FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20
> 03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x04480000,Unknown,0x00019000,Not
> Loaded,1.1.6000.16384,1.1.6000.16384,6.1,9.0,6.1,6.1
>
> I run 'tr' to switch around the backslashes to slashes:
>
>> Â tr '\' '/' <test
> tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
> D,"c:/windows/system32/FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20
> 03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x04480000,Unknown,0x00019000,Not
> Loaded,1.1.6000.16384,1.1.6000.16384,6.1,9.0,6.1,6.1
>
>
> 1) First question: what unescaped backslash? The '\n is escaped via the surrounding quotes.
>
> 2) how should one escape it?
>
> Is this a bug?
It is referring to your input '\' and would prefer '\\'.
Best - Eliot Moss
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* Re: gnanny: tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
2018-12-31 14:47 ` Eliot Moss
@ 2018-12-31 15:01 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2018-12-31 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 2018-12-31 05:57, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 12/31/2018 5:58 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
>> This is being run on cygwin w/bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release.
>> Have a table of windows files, sample line (it's all 1 line):
>>> Â cat test
>> D,"c:\windows\system32\FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20
>> 03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x04480000,Unknown,0x00019000,Not
>> Loaded,1.1.6000.16384,1.1.6000.16384,6.1,9.0,6.1,6.1
>> I run 'tr' to switch around the backslashes to slashes:
>>> Â tr '\' '/' <test
>> tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
>> D,"c:/windows/system32/FMS.DLL",2010-11-20 19:24:33,2010-11-20
>> 03:59:27,93696,A,0x00024E23,0x00024E23,x86,GUI,"CV",0x04480000,Unknown,0x00019000,Not
>> Loaded,1.1.6000.16384,1.1.6000.16384,6.1,9.0,6.1,6.1
>> 1) First question: what unescaped backslash? The '\n is escaped via the
>> surrounding quotes.
>> 2) how should one escape it?
>> Is this a bug?
> It is referring to your input '\' and would prefer '\\'.
The problem is in your command line argument single backslash
info/man tr
tr accepted common character escapes, and now also classes and equivalences in
sets to support utf8 and other extended charsets e.g.
$ tr '\' /
tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
^D
use $ tr '\\' /
$ tr \\ /
tr: warning: an unescaped backslash at end of string is not portable
^D
use $tr \\\\ /
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