It seems that some implementations of tr don't like a
replacement string of '-----...'; they try to find the
double-dash option "---...".
Instead of this pipeline of tr and sed invocations, just use a
single perl invocation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
# from front and back.
name_from_description()
{
- tr "'" '-' |
- tr '~`!@#$%^&*()_+={}[]|\;:"<>,/? ' \
- '------------------------------' |
- tr -s '-' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sed "s/^-*//;s/-*\$//"
+ perl -pe '
+ s/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/-/g;
+ s/-+/-/g;
+ s/-$//;
+ s/^-//;
+ y/A-Z/a-z/;
+ '
}