tr command line
1. How to convert lower case to upper case
To convert from lower case to upper case the predefined sets in tr can be used.
$cat greekfile
Output:
WELCOME TO GeeksforGeeks
$cat greekfile | tr “[a-z]” “[A-Z]”
Output:
WELCOME TO GEEKSFORGEEKS
or
$cat geekfile | tr “[:lower:]” “[:upper:]”
Output:
WELCOME TO GEEKSFORGEEKS
2. How to translate white-space to tabs
The following command will translate all the white-space to tabs
$ echo "Welcome To GeeksforGeeks" | tr [:space:] '\t'
Output:
Welcome To GeeksforGeeks
3. How to translate braces into parenthesis
You can also translate from and to a file. In this example we will translate braces in a file with parenthesis.
$cat greekfile
Output:
{WELCOME TO} GeeksforGeeks
$ tr '{}' '()' newfile.txt
Output:
(WELCOME TO) GeeksforGeeks
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