tr equivalent to sed command

[Joel Rees]

2012/2/25 夜神　岩男 <supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp>:
> 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. :()

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Joel Rees