TR(1)

NAME
tr - translate or delete characters

SYNOPSIS
tr [OPTION]... SET1 [SET2]

DESCRIPTION

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 input sequence of a repeated character that is listed in SET1 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 SET1 if not translating nor deleting; else squeezing uses SET2 and occurs after translation or deletion.

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

Packaged by Cygwin (8.23-4) Copyright © 2014 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.

AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.

SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tr is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tr programs are properly installed at your site, the command

    info coreutils 'tr invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.