Basic Linux command (tr)

tr is used to translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input, writing to standard output.

tr command is usually used alone side with other command.

echo "Hello World" | tr [a-z] [A-Z] # or echo "Hello World" | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] ---- # output: HELLO WORLD 

echo "Hello World!" | tr "!" "." ---- # output: Hello World. 

You can also delete character with tr command

echo "Hello World" | tr -d [a-z] ---- # output: H W 

Another feature is squeeze, we can remove the duplicate character

echo "localhostt" | tr -s "t" ---- # output: localhost 

Other arguement

[:alnum:] all letters and digits
[:alpha:] all letters
[:blank:] all horizontal whitespace
[: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

Leave a comment if you have any questions.

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