Re: RFD: Essential packages, /, and /usr

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:13:23PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> If you're up to it, however, I would like to challenge you to implement
> /usr/bin/tr(1) in /bin/sed(1).  I few of us on IRC tried several days
> ago to do it, and concluded that it couldn't be done.

Did all of you manage to miss sed's y command?

#!/bin/sh
sed "y/$1/$2/"

Supporting all of tr's options is left as an exercise for the reader :-)

Richard Braakman


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