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Re:Command line quick tips: wc, sort, sed and tr – Fedora Ma... by kilodeca on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:57AM (#27957575)
From Doug McIlroy's explanation of a shell pipe line tr stands for transliterate.

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/