* An ongoing debate between Maurice Kinal and Ben Ritchey rages on ...   
      
    MK> they should always be equal.  For every '(' there should be a ')'.   
      
   Noted, will verify this in the future   
      
    MK>   echo "1:393/68.0" | sed 's/[:/.]/ /g'   
    MK> If it works at all at your end you should see "1 393 68 0" (<- without   
    MK>   echo "1:393/68.0" | tr ":/." " "   
      
   Yes, both work fine and do the same.   
      
    MK> What do you think?  Personally I vote for 'tr' in this case but opting   
    MK> for 'sed' won't hurt my feeling any.   
      
   I prefer native linux solutions where possible, so tr it is. I can Email you a   
   list of my bin(s) directories so you know what there is to work with?   
      
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