OK, now why do some folk need the extra quoting and others don't?
(redirect vs cat doesn't matter)

Hickey,Thom wrote:

>Try this:
>
>tr '\035' '\n' <stuff.marc | wc -l
>
>--Th
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey Barnett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:47 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linfeed Trick
>
>Hello, lurker speaking up. :-)
>
>When I try this it doesn't seem to work.  The escape sequences both wind
>up being treated like the single character (number) 0 . (see below)
>
>$ echo X |tr X Y
>Y
>$ echo X |tr X \012
>0
>$ echo X |tr X \035
>0
>$ echo XX |tr X \012
>00
>$ echo X | wc -l
>       1
>$ echo XX |tr X \012 | wc -l
>       1
>
>I'm thinking maybe there are some terminal or shell settings also needed?
>
>
>Hickey,Thom wrote:
>
>
>
>>Actually, I do like writing code, but ended up using 'tr' to do the
>>substitution, even though I did come up with Python code that was actually
>>faster.
>>
>>--Th
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ed Summers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:24 AM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linfeed Trick
>>
>>On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:49:22AM -0400, Houghton,Andrew wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>cat *.mrc | tr \035 \012 | wc -l
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Isn't that shell code :)
>>
>>//Ed
>>
>>
>>
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