Apr 21, 2011
Quick Translating in Unix bash Shell
(maketrans for you pythonistas :)) And yes, not matching the parentheses would have bothered me - blame it on Scheme.
Running the following command will replace every occurrence of 0 with u for everything you type then press Enter (key in Ctrl-D to exit):
tr '0' 'u'
Thus, using some unix command knowledge I learned from a DeCal class at UC Berkeley a simple piping addition can form a one-liner for translating text:
echo 'some random 1337 text' | tr '137' 'let'
Will output:
some random leet text