TR
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: June 2012
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NAME
tr - translate or delete charactersSYNOPSIS
tr [OPTION]... SET1 [SET2]DESCRIPTION
Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input, writing to standard output.
- -c, -C, --complement
- use the complement of SET1
- -d, --delete
- delete characters in SET1, do not translate
- -s, --squeeze-repeats
- replace each input sequence of a repeated character that is listed in SET1 with a single occurrence of that character
- -t, --truncate-set1
- first truncate SET1 to length of SET2
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
SETs are specified as strings of characters. Most represent themselves. Interpreted sequences are:
- \NNN
- character with octal value NNN (1 to 3 octal digits)
- \\
- backslash
- \a
- audible BEL
- \b
- backspace
- \f
- form feed
- \n
- new line
- \r
- return
- \t
- horizontal tab
- \v
- vertical tab
- CHAR1-CHAR2
- all characters from CHAR1 to CHAR2 in ascending order
- [CHAR*]
- in SET2, copies of CHAR until length of SET1
- [CHAR*REPEAT]
- REPEAT copies of CHAR, REPEAT octal if starting with 0
- [:alnum:]
- all letters and digits
- [:alpha:]
- all letters
- [:blank:]
- all horizontal whitespace
- [:cntrl:]
- all control characters
- [:digit:]
- all digits
- [:graph:]
- all printable characters, not including space
- [:lower:]
- all lower case letters
- [:print:]
- all printable characters, including space
- [:punct:]
- all punctuation characters
- [:space:]
- all horizontal or vertical whitespace
- [:upper:]
- all upper case letters
- [:xdigit:]
- all hexadecimal digits
- [=CHAR=]
- all characters which are equivalent to CHAR
Translation occurs if -d is not given and both SET1 and SET2 appear. -t may be used only when translating. SET2 is extended to length of SET1 by repeating its last character as necessary. Excess characters of SET2 are ignored. Only [:lower:] and [:upper:] are guaranteed to expand in ascending order; used in SET2 while translating, they may only be used in pairs to specify case conversion. -s uses SET1 if not translating nor deleting; else squeezing uses SET2 and occurs after translation or deletion.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.REPORTING BUGS
Report tr bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgGNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report tr translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tr is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tr programs are properly installed at your site, the command- info coreutils aqtr invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.
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