Moving files

[Kevin D. Clark]

pll at lanminds.com writes:

> In a message dated: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 12:05:38 EST
> Kevin D. Clark said:

>>(doesn't the y/// thingie remind you of sed and tr?), and then renames
>>the <thing> accordingly (without doing any error checking).
>
> Not only that, but perl has a tr/// thingy which is identical to y///
> (*why* does perl have 2 identical operators?)

Because both sed and tr offer this functionality (tr is named "tr" and
sed offers this functionality with the y/// construct).

This makes perl friendly to both sed and tr aficionados...

--kevin (author of the soon-to-be-released book
         _tr:  The Complete Reference_)

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