> I tried different pernutations of quotes, brackets n'all last
> night and came to the conclusion that it couldn't be done with
> solaris awk. (I'm not very patient though ;-( )
>
> anyone for sed and tr ?
Sure. Just don't use any non-standard tr character classes like :alpha:.
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