Let us explore a few examples to delete single or multiple characters using bash tr command
#1. bash tr, how to delete a single character?
# Example for deleting a letter l (lowercase L)
echo "Hello World" | tr -d 'l'
# Output
Heo Word
#2. bash tr, how to delete multiple characters?
# Example for deleting a letter l (lowercase L)
echo "Hello World" | tr -d 'l,o'
# Output
He Wrd
Reference to bash tr man page:
admin@codetryout:~$ man tr
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NAME
tr - translate or delete characters
SYNOPSIS
tr [OPTION]... SET1 [SET2]
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-d, --delete
delete characters in SET1, do not translate
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