Convert 'a' to 'A' in a Shell-Script

[Andy Sun Anu-guest]

koe at 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