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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tr
Keywords: tr ascii
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Date: 21 Nov 89 04:03:38 GMT
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In article <1004@greens.UUCP> matthew@greens.UUCP (Matthew Stier - Sun 
Visualization Products) writes:
>In article <15949@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I.
>Kamens) writes:
>}
>}  No, the 'tr' command is not capable of changing a single character
>}in the input to multiple characters of output.
>
>True, but this particular problems can be handled by AWK also.
>
>awk '{printf ("%s\r\n", $0)}' $*

  This will work, yes.  However, the original poster asked if tr can
substitute multiple characters in the output for one character in the
input, and than gave the LF -> CR + LF case as an *example* of where
that would be necessary.

  Awk will work for that one case, but it doesn't address the general
problem.  The perl script already posted (by Randal Schwartz, I
think?) is the best solution I've yet seen to the general problem.

  Oh, well, off to learn perl.... :-)

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