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0 pointsmichaelmior7y ago0 comments

> tr - lets you deal with line endings, which sed can't

I'm not sure what you mean by "deal with line endings", but sed can operate across multiple lines.

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Maybe is meant you can remove the carriage returns easily, in case you want only the line feed on the end of the line.

I mean directly operating on the line ending itself. e.g. remove all lines or replace `\n` with the record separator, etc.

Like so?

    % echo 'one\ntwo\nthree' | sed -e 's,$, four,'
    one four
    two four
    three four

No, like this:

    > echo ‘one\ntwo\nthree’ | tr \n \|
    one|two|three

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