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From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Subject: Re: Convert 'a' to 'A' in a Shell-Script
Message-ID: <91Feb3.030328est.18739@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: 3 Feb 91 08:03:36 GMT

koe@kivax.UUCP (Diana Koehler) writes:



>How can I convert "lowercase" characters in "uppercase" characters
>in a Shell-Script.
>f.e. convert all 'a' to 'A' ?
>(awk, sed ??)

>Thanks in advance

>Diana

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I know you'll probably get lots of replies from people because the
above is a trivial one. There is a command called "tr" (for translate,
I think it is a SysV command) that does translations. Typing

		tr A-Z a-z filename

will convert all upper cases to lower cases in file filename.

Andy