Re: potential tr bug
Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:06:48 +0100
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"Grant Ballard" <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't get tr to redirect to a file or pipe to another command. > Is there something I'm doing wrong (or a version that handles this better)? > > specific command syntax > tr -d \" > test.txt > > INPUT: > "d5902589" > > desired OUTPUT: > d5902589 That works fine for me. What shell are you using? I'm using bash. If you're using a substandard shell, it might help to write it like this instead: tr -d '"' > test.txt