tr command examples.md 798 B
Title: tr command examples Date: 2017-01-17 09:11:25 Categories: [cli] tags: [tr]
Authors: sedlav
tr is a command in Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation of replacing or removing specific characters in its input data set.
The utility reads a byte stream from its standard input and writes the result to the standard output. As arguments, it takes two sets of characters (generally of the same length), and replaces occurrences of the characters in the first set with the corresponding elements from the second set