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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
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Subject: Re: Change cases in VI
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Date: 11 Dec 90 03:07:41 GMT
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On Tue, 11 Dec 90 01:18:04 GMT, reader@wsl.dec.com (News Reader) said:

> Is there an easy way to change the whole file from upper case to lower
> case or vice versa? I don't want to do 26 substitutions to change
> character by character.

You're better off using tr(1). i.e.:

	% tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < infile > outfile

for upper to lower

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
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