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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: tr
Summary: one to many substitutions with tr? no
Keywords: tr ascii
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Date: 16 Nov 89 20:23:31 GMT
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  No, the 'tr' command is not capable of changing a single character
in the input to multiple characters of output.

  You could probably do it really easily in perl, though :-)

  Just another person who is amused by all the perl hackers but hasn't
gotten around to learning perl himself,

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