using rot13 and tr command for having an encrypted email address
Not sure exactly how you want to use this, but here's a basic example to get you started:
echo '[email protected]' | tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
To make it easier, you can alias the tr
command in your .bashrc
file thusly:
alias rot13="tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'"
Now you can just call:
echo '[email protected]' | rot13
A perfect task for tr
, indeed. This should do what you want:
tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'
Each character in the first set will be replaced with the corresponding character in the second set. E.g. A replaced with N, B replaced with O, etc.. And then the same for the lower case letters. All other characters will be passed through unchanged.
Note the lack of [
and ]
where you normally might expect them. This is because tr
treats square brackets literally, not as range expressions. So, for example, tr -d '[A-Z]'
will delete capital letters and square brackets. If you wanted to keep your brackets, use tr -d 'A-Z'
:
$ echo "foo BAR [baz]" | tr -d '[A-Z]'
foo baz
$ echo "foo BAR [baz]" | tr -d 'A-Z'
foo [baz]
Same for character classes. E.g. tr -d '[[:lower:]]'
is probably an error, and should be tr -d '[:lower:]'
.
However, in lucky situations like this one, you can get away with including the brackets anyway! For example, tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"
accidentally works because the square brackets in the first set are replaced by identical square brackets from the second set, but really this is a bad habit to get into. Use tr "a-z" "A-Z"
instead.