[ale] why isn't this working? (tr question)

[Jason Day]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:27:16AM -0500, Jason Vinson wrote:
> I am trying to compile a java program from the command line, and I am being lazy^H^H^H^Hcreative with my classpath, so I do this:
> 
> javac -classpath ".:j2ee.jar:`find . -name "*.jar" -print | tr '\n'':'`" Tester.java
> 
> which doesn't find my classes, which i know exist.  So i trim out the find function as so:
> 
> find . -name "*.jar" -print | tr '\n'':' 
> 
> but it returns a normal find output (i.e. file\n file\n file\n).

I just tried this, in debian linux, bash 2.05a.0, and got the
translation (file1.jar:file2.jar etc.).  I did have to put a space
betwen the '\n' and ':' though, without the space I get:
   tr: two strings must be given when translating

What system and shell are you using?

Jason
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