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Sun Visualization Products matthew at sunpix.UUCP
Sat Nov 18 04:38:36 AEST 1989


In article <15949 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik at 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.
}
}  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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True, but this particular problems can be handled by AWK also.

awk '{printf ("%s\r\n", $0)}' $*


[Note: code written on the fly, and untested - but should work]




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