Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:04:15 +0300
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Subject: Re: redirection in bash
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:47:23 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> -: I used to agree (heck I even patched bash 1.14.7 way back when, just to
> -: get Unixy temp files/redirection).
> 
> If you can be sure only text is redirected, is there
> any reason to use `dtou' rather than `tr -d '\r''?

There are several reasons, actually:

  - dtou is faster
  - dtou can process many files in one swell whoop (dtou .../*.c)
  - dtou preserves the files' time stamps

(There are probably more, I'm sure.)