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From: chai@ta7.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
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Subject: Info: \escape characters used with 'tr'
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Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> writes:
>I also found that the # character also needs escaping (it's
>interpreted as commenting out the rest of the line in some
>shells).

Oops, yes indeed, it does. (I shoulda known that, but I just didn't
think of it at the time.)