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Tr is a little linux utility which translates standard input and returns in standard output. It is useful for easily converting from uppercase to lowercase, etc...

Examples

>for i in `find | grep Nomfich`; do j=`echo $i | tr [Nom] [nom]`; if [ $i != $j ]; then mv $i $j; fi; done;

This bash line transforms the Nomfich_*.dat files into nomfich_*.dat

> cat somefile.txt | tr -cd [:graph:]

The above command deletes all non-printable characters (good for chomping a string...)

> tr -d "\r\n" file1

The above command joins all lines from text input.

> tr -dc [:print:]

The above command removes all non-printable characters (printable characters include white spaces). This means that it will effectively concatenate all lines coming from a text input.

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