// Hacker Noon · 20 May 2026

cut and tr — The Quiet Tools That Clean Up Everyone Else's Mess

Cut and tr are the tools most practitioners use without fully understanding — cut extracts fields and character positions from structured text, tr translates, deletes, or squeezes individual characters across an entire stream. This article covers both from the ground up, with every flag explained an...

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