What does the | mean here at the beginning of a line?
tr -d '?."!:,();' < manywords \
| tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' \
| tr ' ' '\n'
The resource I’m using says that this should work but when I run it, I get syntax error near unexpected token|’`
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The syntax error is due the empty lines.
should work. The
\means “this command continues on the next line”, so this is justexcept more readable.