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Bug 1262847 - typeset -u/-l not working on values assigned before calling typeset
Summary: typeset -u/-l not working on values assigned before calling typeset
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bash
Version: 7.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ondrej Oprala
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-14 13:28 UTC by Martin Kyral
Modified: 2016-02-01 02:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-09-15 06:33:17 UTC
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Description Martin Kyral 2015-09-14 13:28:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
typeset has options -u and -l to uppercase / lowercase all characters in the given variable. While this works if there is value assigned to the variable within the typeset call, it fails to do so if the value has been assigned to the variable before calling typeset upon it. See the demo.

test.sh:

#!/bin/bash

echo "value assigned via typeset"

typeset -u test_u=uppercase
typeset -xu test_xu=uppercase
typeset -txu test_txu=uppercase

echo "uppercased: ${test_u}  ${test_xu}   ${test_txu}"

unset test_u
unset test_xu
unset test_txu

typeset -l test_u=LOWERCASE
typeset -xl test_xu=LOWERCASE
typeset -txl test_txu=LOWERCASE

echo "lowercased: ${test_u}  ${test_xu}   ${test_txu}"

unset test_u
unset test_xu
unset test_txu

test_u=uppercase
typeset -u test_u
test_xu=uppercase
typeset -xu test_xu
test_txu=uppercase
typeset -txu test_txu

echo "value assigned before calling typeset"

echo "uppercased: ${test_u}  ${test_xu}   ${test_txu}"

unset test_u
unset test_xu
unset test_txu

test_u=LOWERCASE
typeset -u test_u
test_xu=LOWERCASE
typeset -xu test_xu
test_txu=LOWERCASE
typeset -txu test_txu

echo "lowercased: ${test_u}  ${test_xu}   ${test_txu}"

unset test_u
unset test_xu
unset test_txu

[0 root@qeos-51 ~]# bash test.sh
value assigned via typeset
uppercased: UPPERCASE  UPPERCASE   UPPERCASE
lowercased: lowercase  lowercase   lowercase
value assigned before calling typeset
uppercased: uppercase  uppercase   uppercase
lowercased: LOWERCASE  LOWERCASE   LOWERCASE


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bash-4.2.46-19.el7

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Ondrej Oprala 2015-09-15 06:33:17 UTC 
Hi Martin,
this is the way it's supposed to work. The conversion is done upon assignment, not upon expansion (as zsh does, for example), so existing values are not affected... or as the manpage says:
"When the variable is assigned a value, all lower-case characters are converted to upper-case."
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