topic Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets. in Operating System - HP-UX

conversion from small to CAPS lets.

deepak_9 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:36:26 GMT

Hi Forum,

Wann to know how to covert string of "small letters" into CAPS one.

Please reply asap.

Regards

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

federico_3 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:42:29 GMT

you can like this:

echo "string"| dd conv=ucase

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Darrell Allen — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:52:14 GMT

Hi,

Use tr. From man tr:

Translate all lower case characters in file1 to upper case and write the result to standard output.
tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"
Or: echo string | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"

Darrell

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

federico_3 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:52:48 GMT

Another way could be the following:

echo "string"| tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]"

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Dave Peeke — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:54:09 GMT

typeset -u string
string="test"
echo $string
TEST

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

harry d brown jr — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:55:03 GMT

echo this is a test | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"

live free or die
harry

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

deepak_9 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:00:17 GMT

Hi,

The answers are quite satisfactory but what if I wann to retain the file extensions as it is...I mean for "abc.sql", it should be "ABC.sql" convention.

Thanks

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Robin Wakefield — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:03:51 GMT

Hi Deepak,

If you only have a "single" dot, then

echo abc.def | awk -F. '{print toupper($1)"."$2}'
ABC.def

should be OK.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Jeff Machols — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:05:06 GMT

you would do something like this

NAME=`echo $STRING | awk -F. '{print $1}'
EXT=`echo $STRING | awk -F. '{print $2}'

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Darrell Allen — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:23:39 GMT

If you want to limit your translation to files with only 1 dot in them:

for i in `ls *\.*`
do
cnt=`echo $i | awk -F. '{print NF}'`
if [ ${cnt} -eq 2 ]
then
echo $i | awk -F. '{print toupper($1)"."$2}'
fi
done

Darrell

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Darrell Allen — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:33:38 GMT

A refinement to my last post:

for i in `ls *\.*`
do
echo $i | awk -F. '{if (NF == 2) print toupper($1)"."$2}'
done

Darrell

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

Craig Rants — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:43:00 GMT

Since I did not see the sed version

sed filename 'y/abc...xyz/ABC...xyz/'

fill in the ... part with then entire alphabet. Of course this is not the pretty way to do things, but it is the sed way.

Enjoy,
C

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

federico_3 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:50:43 GMT

i'd do like the following:

ls -1 abc.sql | awk -F "." '{system("mv" ""$0 "" toupper($1) ".sql" }'

Re: conversion from small to CAPS lets.

federico_3 — Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:50:59 GMT

i'd do like the following:

ls -1 abc.sql | awk -F "." '{system("mv" " " $0 " " toupper($1) ".sql" }'