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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parameter expansion not working for all strings... Post 302569841 by refuser on Tuesday 1st of November 2011 05:54:08 PM
Old 11-01-2011
But they are, hexdump and translation to unicode gives
Code:
U+002E FULL STOP character (.)
U+002F SOLIDUS character (/)
U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J character
U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O character
U+0073 LATIN SMALL LETTER S character
U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE character (é)
U+0020 SPACE character
U+0047 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G character
U+006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O character
U+006E LATIN SMALL LETTER N character
U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z character
U+00E1 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE character (á)
U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L character
U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E character
U+007A LATIN SMALL LETTER Z character
U+0020 SPACE character
U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS character (-)
U+0020 SPACE character
U+0049 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I character
U+006E LATIN SMALL LETTER N character
U+0020 SPACE character
U+004F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O character
U+0075 LATIN SMALL LETTER U character
U+0072 LATIN SMALL LETTER R character
U+0020 SPACE character
U+004E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N character
U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A character
U+0074 LATIN SMALL LETTER T character
U+0075 LATIN SMALL LETTER U character
U+0072 LATIN SMALL LETTER R character
U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E character
U+002F SOLIDUS character (/)
U+0030 DIGIT ZERO character (0)
U+0036 DIGIT SIX character (6)
U+0020 SPACE character
U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A character
U+0062 LATIN SMALL LETTER B character
U+0072 LATIN SMALL LETTER R character
U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A character
U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M character
U+002E FULL STOP character (.)
U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F character
U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L character
U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A character
U+0063 LATIN SMALL LETTER C character
U+000A <control> character

And even if they weren't, wouldn't they be changed by ${line//[^a-z]/} since they are not [a-z]?

:/


[edit]:

And by the way, if I use sed to do the substitution it works on the José... lines to... it even removes some of them completely.

Code:
22:56:50 $ find . -iname "*" -print| while read line; do echo $(line | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z]//g' );done
SimonGarfunkelTheEssentialSimonGarfunkelCDSimonGarfunkelTheDanglingConversationAlbumVersionflac
AneBrunATemporaryDiveFLACAneBrunToLetMyselfGoflac

Last edited by refuser; 11-01-2011 at 07:00 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

distro-info

DISTRO-INFO(1)						      General Commands Manual						    DISTRO-INFO(1)

NAME

       distro-info - provides information about the distributions' releases

SYNOPSIS

       distro-info [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution.  On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links
       to ubuntu-distro-info.  All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options,	which  are
       not described here, are distribution specific.

OPTIONS

       --date=DATE
	      date for calculating the version (default: today)

       -h, --help
	      display help message and exit

       -a, --all
	      list all known versions

       -d, --devel
	      latest development version

       -s, --stable
	      latest stable version

       --supported
	      list of all supported stable versions

       --unsupported
	      list of all unsupported stable versions

       -c, --codename
	      print the codename (default)

       -r, --release
	      print the release version

       -f, --fullname
	      print the full name

SEE ALSO

       debian-distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)

AUTHOR

       The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.

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