Moving files

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, at 12:42pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Not only that, but perl has a tr/// thingy which is identical to y///
> (*why* does perl have 2 identical operators?)

  Same reason about half of Perl is the way it is: It just happened that
way.  IIRC, the original operator was y///, but tr/// was added to make
shell programmers think they know what's going on.  :-)

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