TR
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2019
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NAME
tr - translate or delete characters
SYNOPSIS
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 sequence of a repeated character
that is listed in the last specified SET,
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 the last
specified SET, and occurs after translation or deletion.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report tr translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tr>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tr invocation'
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