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add more examples to tr
These examples were suggested to add and are based from the tr-wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tr_(Unix)&oldid=631477596

Daniel Senff 10 years ago
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 # tr
 
-> translate characters - run replacements based on single characters
+> translate characters - run replacements based on single characters and character sets
 
-- replace all occurrences of a character in a file, and print the result
+- Replace all occurrences of a character in a file, and prints the result
 
-`tr {{find_character}} {{replace_character}} < {{filename}}`
+`tr {{find_characters}} {{replace_characters}} < {{filename}}`
 
- Translate the contents of the file to upper-case, prints result.
+- Maps each character of the first set to the corresponding character of the second set.
+
+`tr 'abcd' 'jkmn' < {{filename}}`
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+- Delete all occurances of the specified set of characters from the input.
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+`tr -d '{{input_characters}}'`
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+- Compresses a series of identical characters to a single character.
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+`tr -s '\n'`
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+- 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.
+- Strip out non-printable characters from the file, prints result.
 
 `tr -cd "[:print:]" < {{filename}}`