tr
Translate characters: run replacements based on single characters and character sets. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/tr.
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Replace all occurrences of a character in a file, and print the result:
tr {{find_character}} {{replace_character}} < {{path/to/file}}
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Replace all occurrences of a character from another command's output:
echo {{text}} | tr {{find_character}} {{replace_character}}
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Map each character of the first set to the corresponding character of the second set:
tr '{{abcd}}' '{{jkmn}}' < {{path/to/file}}
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Delete all occurrences of the specified set of characters from the input:
tr -d '{{input_characters}}' < {{path/to/file}}
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Compress a series of identical characters to a single character:
tr -s '{{input_characters}}' < {{path/to/file}}
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Translate the contents of a file to upper-case:
tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" < {{path/to/file}}
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Strip out non-printable characters from a file:
tr -cd "[:print:]" < {{path/to/file}}
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