From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Jan 14 05:45:23 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F9016A407
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:45:23 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com)
Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1113C475
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:45:22 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com)
Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id l0E5jMvT035343
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT);
	Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:45:22 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com)
Received: (from uucp@localhost)
	by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id l0E5jMnX035342; 
	Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:45:22 -0800 (PST)
Received: from fbsd61 ([192.168.200.61]) by pluto.rain.com
	(4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA24106; Sat, 13 Jan 07 21:41:54 PST
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:44:29 -0800
From: perryh@pluto.rain.com
To: matt@gsicomp.on.ca
Message-Id: <45a9c33d.GPlTVhPx1+f5rhxk%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
References: <20070114024551.GA21847@thought.org>
	<001201c7378f$775f3e10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <001201c7378f$775f3e10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: kline@tao.thought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: perl substitution question
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:45:23 -0000

> cat k | tr "\200" "\"" | tr "\235" "\"" > k.new

Or, skipping the unnecessary cat and invoking tr only once

tr "\200\235" "\"\"" < k > k.new