tr command in Linux with example

In this tutorial, I use the tr command to translate or delete characters. Now, let’s go tr command in Linux for example.

What does tr command mean?

tr – translate or delete characters

Syntax

tr [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

On the man page, the describes it

  • tr – translate or delete characters.
  • man tr – More details information about tr command.
tr command in Linux with example

tr command in Linux with example

I have created a file tr_command.txt as below

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ cat tr_command.txt 
 HuuPV, My website DevopsRoles.com and HuuPhan.com.SN:199x.
 Devops Roles.
 Devops Roles.
 Devops Roles.
 Devops Roles.
 Hello world :)

How to convert small letters into capital letters.

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ cat tr_command.txt | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]           
 HUUPV, MY WEBSITE DEVOPSROLES.COM AND HUUPHAN.COM.SN:199X.
 DEVOPS ROLES.
 DEVOPS ROLES.
 DEVOPS ROLES.
 DEVOPS ROLES.
 HELLO WORLD :)

The following command is used to convert each space of the text by a newline (\n)

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ cat tr_command.txt | tr [:space:] '\n'                                                                                                            
 HuuPV,
 My
 website
 DevopsRoles.com
 and
 HuuPhan.com.SN:199x.
 Devops
 Roles.
 Devops
 Roles.
 Devops
 Roles.
 Devops
 Roles.
 Hello
 world
 :)

uses –s option for search and replacing any string from a text

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ cat tr_command.txt |  tr -s ' ' '\t'
 HuuPV,  My      website DevopsRoles.com and     HuuPhan.com.SN:199x.
 Devops  Roles.
 Devops  Roles.
 Devops  Roles.
 Devops  Roles.
 Hello   world   :)

Delete numbers

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ cat tr_command.txt | tr -d "[:digit:]"
 HuuPV, My website DevopsRoles.com and HuuPhan.com.SN:x.
 Devops Roles.
 Devops Roles.
 Devops Roles.
 Devops Roles.
 Hello world :)

Output the converted output to a file

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ cat tr_command.txt | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" > result_tr.txt 

Conclusion

tr command is the simple command in Linux. It is used to translate or delete characters. Thank you for reading the DevopsRoles page!

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About HuuPV

My name is Huu. I love technology and especially Devops Skill such as Docker, vagrant, git so forth. I likes open-sources. so I created DevopsRoles.com site to share the knowledge that I have learned. My Job: IT system administrator. Hobbies: summoners war game, gossip.
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