2012/2/25 夜神 岩男 <supergiantpotato@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 02/25/2012 12:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 21:22 +0900, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to move a script from invoking lots of sed and awk to bash >>> builtins and I'm stumped on something I'm sure is simple. >>> >>> Is there a tr equivalent to the following? >> >> [...] >> >> You realize that tr is not a Bash builtin, right? > > > No, I didn't check, actually, thanks for pointing that out. The tr command > is probably easier for some of the younger folks who will have to read this > later on[1]. Now I'm curious and might run some tests on the two versions > and see which is quicker -- though that's totally not the point with > scripting (well, isn't supposed to be, anyway). > > -IY > > 1. Rantesque continuation: > ...as they seem so allergic to learning one or two sed commands that they > will instead implement a parse/convert library from scratch in their > favorite vanity language complete with intermediate working files and > locks... and viola, new dependencies, attack vectors, opportunities for > frozen jobs, etc are born. Hey, come on, no need to blame that all on the younger guys. Some of us old codgers like to do that, too. :-/ > [...] (What seems clear one day for me is not the next. And I was hoping to grow old gracefully. :() -- Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
