examples of tr

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  Here are three examples of using tr on a 4.2bsd system.
    Does anyone have comments?

 % tr -cs A-Za-z '\012' <file1 >file2
  creates a list of all the words in `file1' one per line in `file2',
  where a word is taken to be a maximal string of alphabetics.
  the second string is quoted to protect `\' from the shell.
  012 is the ascii code (in octal) for newline.

 % tr A-Z a-z
  will translate all upper case characters into lower case.

 % tr -d '\015' < in > out
  will read from file 'in', deleting all ^M (carriage return) characters
  and storing the result into file 'out'. 015 is the ascii code (in octal)
  for carriage return.
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