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From: sanjiv@hoss.unl.edu (Sanjiv K. Bhatia)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Change cases in VI
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.041717.18604@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 04:17:17 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.011804.14702@pa.dec.com> reader@wsl.dec.com (News Reader) writes:
>
>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.

Here it is:

	:%!tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"

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