tr Command

The tr command is used to translate or delete characters in a file. It can read from a file or from the standard input, and after the string translation, it outputs the result to the standard output.

Syntax

tr [OPTION]... SET1 [SET2]

Options

  • -c, -C, --complement: use the complement of SET1.
  • -d, --delete: delete characters in SET1 without translation.
  • -s, --squeeze-repeats: replace each input sequence of a repeated character listed in SET1 with a single occurrence of that character.
  • -t, --truncate-set1: first truncate SET1 to the length of SET2.
  • --help: display this help and exit.
  • --version: output version information and exit.

Interpretation of escape sequences

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Examples

The content of the file.txt file is as follows.

Hello World

Convert all letters in the file to uppercase.

cat file.txt | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
# HELLO WORLD

You can achieve the same using the [:lower] and [:upper] arguments.

cat file.txt | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]
# HELLO WORLD

Convert whitespace characters to tab.

cat file.txt | tr [:space:] "\t"
# Hello   World

Delete all o characters.

cat file.txt | tr -d "o"
# Hell Wrld

Delete all numbers.

echo "My ID is 73535" | tr -d [:digit:]
# My ID is

Extract numbers from a string.

echo "My ID is 73535" | tr -cd [:digit:] # 73535

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References

https://www.runoob.com/linux/linux-comm-tr.html https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/tr.htm https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tr-command-in-unix-linux-with-examples/
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