translate tr (whole words)?

[jongbsio]

I am running

tr 'test' 'xxxx' < myfile

but it translating every occurance of t,e,s,t to x

How do I translate only the word 'test' to 'xxxx'?

Thanks!

 

[CaKiwi]

Use

sed 's/test/xxxx/g' myfile CaKiwi

 

[AIXSPadmin]

If you want to use `tr` to do this use [] around test: [test]