Bash：常用命令工具-tr命令

tr命令可以用来做简单的字符替换与删除，常用的有-d, -s选项。它的替换与删除是按单个字符来的

假设有以下文本：

Read from the file words.txt
and output the word frequency list
to stdout.

USE CASE 1:
将文本全部转化为大写

$ cat text.txt | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
READ FROM THE FILE WORDS.TXT
AND OUTPUT THE WORD FREQUENCY LIST
TO STDOUT.

tr命令中的[a-z]即为需要被替换的字符的一个集合，而[A-Z]则是替换之后的字符集合，它们是一一对应的关系（a对应A，b对应B...）。tr命令不能做字符串的替换工作如：

$ cat text.txt | tr "the" "an"
Rnad from ann filn words.axa
and ouapua ann word frnqunncy lisa
ao sadoua.

可以看到the并没有被替换为an，而是再一次的按照字符进行了一一替换（t-->a，h-->n，e-->n），这一点需要注意。

USE CASE 2:
将文本中的单词提取为一行一个

$ cat text.txt | tr -s " " "\n"
Read
from
the
file
words.txt
and
output
the
word
frequency
list
to
stdout.

这里使用-s参数用来去重，这里的去重指的是，但指定的字符被替换后，如果发现相邻的有重复的那么只保留一个，如果不加-s参数：

$ cat text.txt | tr  " " "\n"
Read
from
the
file
words.txt

and
output
the
word
frequency
list

to
stdout.

可以看到有多余的回车出现。举一个更极端的例子：

$ echo "AAaaaaabbBBbb"|tr -s [ab] [AB]
AB

可以看到使用了-s参数后，进行替换后连续重复的字符只保留了一个。

查看path变量：

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
$ echo $PATH|tr -s ":" "\n"
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/bin
/sbin
/bin
/usr/games
/usr/local/games

USE CASE 3:
删除指定字符

$ date|tr -d [A-Za-z]
17 14:45:56  2015

参考：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_58c3f7960100uttl.html

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.