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translate characters - standard input .

Tr. translate characters - standard input. tr x y < namesAndNumbers.txt translated from x to y in file namesAndNumbers.txt tr can be used to produce more readable output. cut -d: -f1,6 /etc/passwd | tr : 't' this replaces one delimiter with another making it more readable.

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translate characters - standard input .

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  2. translate characters - standard input. • tr x y < namesAndNumbers.txt • translated from x to y in file namesAndNumbers.txt • tr can be used to produce more readable output. • cut -d: -f1,6 /etc/passwd | tr : '\t' • this replaces one delimiter with another • making it more readable.

  3. Octal values • these can be used with tr • tr : '\t' • tr : '\11‘ (ie \11 is tab \t) • this replaces 'space' with 'new line' • date | tr ' ' '\n' • date | tr ' ' '\12‘ (ie \12 is \n newline)

  4. Upper to Lower case • Upper to Lower case • tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < names.txt • will convert upper case to lower case.

  5. tr -s option (squash) • tr -s ':' '\11' • this will replace multiple occurances of :::: • with a single tab. • tr -l ' ' ' ' < poem.txt • will remove multiple spaces • and replace with single spaces.

  6. tr -d option (delete) • tr can delete single characters. • tr -d ' ' < names.txt • will remove space from names.txt • can do same with sed • sed 's/ //g' names.txt • (s is subsitute, g is global)

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