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# tr
> translate characters - run replacements based on single characters and character sets
- Replace all occurrences of a character in a file, and prints the result
`tr {{find_characters}} {{replace_characters}} < {{filename}}`
- Maps each character of the first set to the corresponding character of the second set.
`tr 'abcd' 'jkmn' < {{filename}}`
- Delete all occurances of the specified set of characters from the input.
`tr -d '{{input_characters}}'`
- Compresses a series of identical characters to a single character.
`tr -s '\n'`
- Translate the contents of the file to upper-case, prints result.
`tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" < {{filename}}`
- Strip out non-printable characters from the file, prints result.
`tr -cd "[:print:]" < {{filename}}`