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Joachim Ansorg edited this page Nov 12, 2021
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PLATFORM="$(uname -s | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')"
PLATFORM="$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
A-Z
and a-z
are commonly intended to mean "all uppercase" and "all lowercase letters" respectively. This ignores accented characters in English, and foreign characters in other languages:
$ tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' <<< "My fiancée ordered a piña colada."
MY FIANCéE ORDERED A PIñA COLADA.
Instead, you can use [:lower:]
and [:upper:]
to explicitly specify case:
$ tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <<< "My fiancée ordered a piña colada."
MY FIANCÉE ORDERED A PIÑA COLADA.
If you don't want a-z
to match é
or A-Z
to match Ñ
, you can ignore this message.
As of 2019-09-08, BusyBox tr
does not support character classes, so you would have to ignore this message.
Note that the examples used here are multibyte characters in UTF-8. Many implementations (including GNU) fails to deal with them.