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Change to /etc/profile


I would suggest a small change to /etc/profile.

/etc/profile is being run by bash, which has pretty substantial filename expansion. For example,

echo [a-z]ib

Will respond 'lib' if there is a lib directory. In /etc/profile, there is a tr command:

/usr/bin/tr [:upper:] [:lower:]

which is hitting a couple of directories in my $HOME, namely 'r' and 'w'. So the tr is getting weird arguments (tr r w r) and complaining. This could be fixed by changing that part to

/usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

Please let me know if there's a bug tracking system, or similar, to which you'd rather me submit this bug report.

Thanks,
Webb Roberts

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