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Nobody's Hero
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Change lower case

Is there a script or utility that allows me to change an ascii file from lower case to upper case?

The entire file is lower case and I want it to be upper case.
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Rajeev Tyagi
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Re: Change lower case

Robert,

Use

cat file | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'
Pete Randall
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Re: Change lower case

tr -s '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

Do a man on tr.


Pete

Pete
Peter Godron
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Re: Change lower case

Robert,
tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" file2
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Patrick Wallek
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Re: Change lower case

Yet another different way of doing it:

# awk '{print toupper($0)}' filename > filename.new
Peter Godron
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Re: Change lower case

Pete,
I believe your [:upper] and [:lower] are the wrong way round ;-)
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Dani Seely
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Re: Change lower case

Hey Robert,
Thanks for posting this question. I've just learned the easy way of doing this. I've not needed to do an entire file before, just certain sections within a file. I've done this manually by putting my cursor over the first letter to change to uppercase (or this works also for lowercase) and holding the shift key down and pressing the ~ (tilde) key. Holding these keys down changes the case from lower to upper or upper to lower (depending on the current case) until I release the keys.

Again, thanks for posting your question.
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Dani Seely
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Re: Change lower case

Hey Robert,
I couldn't get this to work:
# cat file | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'

but I could get this to work:
# cat file | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'

Again, thanks.
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Dani Seely
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Re: Change lower case

Hey Robert,
Sorry, forgot the complete syntax for converting a file from lowercase to uppercase ...

# cat | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' >
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Biswajit Tripathy
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Re: Change lower case

If you want to do this in C, here is it:

--- File toupper.c ----
#include
#include
int main ()
{
for (;!feof(stdin);)
fputc (toupper(fgetc (stdin)), stdout);
return 0;
}
---- End ---
Save above file in toupper.c and compile.
# cc toupper.c -o toupper

Execute it as:
# cat you_file | toupper

- Biswajit
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