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

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Richard Braakman 

| 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/"

I'm not saying I'm a sed guru, but

: tfheen@arabella ~ > echo ABCD | tr A-Z a-z
abcd
: tfheen@arabella ~ > echo ABCD | sed 'y/A-Z/a-z/'
aBCD

doesn't seem to do the same at all for me.

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