[H-GEN] file conversions

[Anthony Towns]

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:17:31PM +1000, Jason Parker wrote:
> This will edit files in-place:
> $ perl -i .bak -pe'y/:/\n/' *.input

This won't:
  $ tr <foo >foo.new ':' '\n'

But it will do basically the same thing, and it doesn't need that new
fangled Perl whatsit.

Cheers,
aj (TMTOWTDI, after all)

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