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shell command: translate

“Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input,
writing to standard output.”

… that’s the manpage description of the shell-command I just found (with the help of a good friend) … and besides sed this is a very handy way to do simple string-operations on stdin.

He used it to replace (old) Mac newline characters with Unix newline charaters within files (as seen on wikipedia):
tr '\r' '\n' < old.file > new.file

Btw I still think that it’s stupid that users still have all the hazzle with newline charaters – why can’t the OS-developers just recognize all types of newlines?

"Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input, writing to standard output." ... that's the manpage description of the shell-command I just found (with the help of a good friend) ... and besides sed this is a very handy way to do simple string-operations on stdin. He used it to replace (old) Mac newline characters with Unix ...