Re: Bug report of tr command.

[Eric Blake]

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According to maguowei2723 on 4/13/2009 1:45 AM:
> I want to replace all the word of "root" to "administrator" in test.txt 
> file.I get a bit part of the file:
>  
> 
> yeah,but when I finish the replace by execute command---- tr 'root' 
> 'administrator' < test.txt
> I found the result is not the same with my expected.
>  
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> ammi         1  0.0  0.1   2008   768 ?        Ss   21:03   0:03 /sbin/inii

tr is for character replacement.  You asked it to replace 'o' with 'd',
and also asked it to replace 'o' with 'm', and the latter request won.  If
you want word replacement, you are looking for 'sed', not 'tr'.

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