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TR(1)                           User Commands                          TR(1)

NAME         top

       tr - translate or delete characters

SYNOPSIS         top

       tr [OPTION]... SET1 [SET2]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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         top

       Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report tr translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2017 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         top

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tr>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) tr invocation'

COLOPHON         top

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GNU coreutils 8.27               March 2017                            TR(1)

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