tr: improve page

- Add source data to all examples
- Add an example for piping from another command
- Improve punctuation in main description
- Add token markup {{}} to one example that was missing it
- Remove redundant "and print result" from the last two examples
  (it's true for all the ones shown)
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Waldir Pimenta 2019-01-11 11:09:02 +00:00 committed by Agniva De Sarker
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# tr
> Translate characters - run replacements based on single characters and character sets.
> Translate characters: run replacements based on single characters and character sets.
- Replace all occurrences of a character in a file, and print the result:
`tr {{find_characters}} {{replace_characters}} < {{filename}}`
`tr {{find_character}} {{replace_character}} < {{filename}}`
- Replace all occurrences of a character from another command's output:
`echo {{text}} | tr {{find_character}} {{replace_character}}`
- Map each character of the first set to the corresponding character of the second set:
`tr 'abcd' 'jkmn' < {{filename}}`
`tr '{{abcd}}' '{{jkmn}}' < {{filename}}`
- Delete all occurrences of the specified set of characters from the input:
`tr -d '{{input_characters}}'`
`tr -d '{{input_characters}}' < {{filename}}`
- Compress a series of identical characters to a single character:
`tr -s '{{input_characters}}'`
`tr -s '{{input_characters}}' < {{filename}}`
- Translate the contents of the file to upper-case and print result:
- Translate the contents of a file to upper-case:
`tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" < {{filename}}`
- Strip out non-printable characters from the file and print result:
- Strip out non-printable characters from a file:
`tr -cd "[:print:]" < {{filename}}`