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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/t6000lib.sh: tr portability fix fix
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 03:47:37PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

> This patch fixes things. If the dashdash notation is not portable, then
> backslashing each dash also works. i.e. '\-\-\-\-.. etc. but as you
> mentioned something like that is less readable, but possibly not as bad
> as a sed version.

It seems to work fine on Solaris with all versions of tr. I did just
blindly extend the '-' without thinking, though...I wonder if there are
systems that will get confused about it being a range. It might be
safer to just use sed anyway.

-Peff