Advanced·Reading and processing text
tr: Replace or delete characters
Syntax
tr [-d] character set [target set]Options
-d- Delete specified characters
Examples
echo hello | tr a-z A-ZUsage and sandbox support
Read from standard input; this sandbox supports simple character ranges and \n, \t.
Hands-on exercises
- Uniform text caseAdvanced
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