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
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