Try
tr -c [:alnum:] ....
-c --complement
suomi
On 02/24/2012 01:22 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
I'm trying to move a script from invoking lots of sed and awk to
bash
builtins and I'm stumped on something I'm sure is simple.
Is there a tr equivalent to the following?
sed 's/[^[:alnum:]]//g'
I just can't seem to get tr -d to accept a negative matching set, but
perhaps that's not possible?
Thanks in advance
-IY