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A really simple Caesar Cipher in Bash (or Shell) using `tr`, can also easily be adjusted to encrypt/decrypt ROT13 instead.
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# Caesar cipher encoding | |
echo "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" | tr '[A-Z]' '[X-ZA-W]' | |
# output: QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD | |
# Caesar cipher decoding | |
echo "QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD" | tr '[X-ZA-W]' '[A-Z]' | |
# output: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG | |
# Can also be adjusted to ROT13 instead | |
echo "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" | tr '[A-Z]' '[N-ZA-M]' | |
# output: GUR DHVPX OEBJA SBK WHZCF BIRE GUR YNML QBT | |
echo "GUR DHVPX OEBJA SBK WHZCF BIRE GUR YNML QBT" | tr '[N-ZA-M]' '[A-Z]' | |
# output: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG | |
# Case-sensitive version of ROT13 | |
tr '[A-Za-z]' '[N-ZA-Mn-za-m]' |
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I came here from a google-search. Thanks for sharing this. However, the brackets are superfluous and the invocation can thus be
tr 'A-Za-z' 'X-ZA-Wx-za-w'
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