how can I separate eacho one of fields in the line and put them in the file as lines

[Hanry Zhou]

I have a variable or a line in the file, and it consists of a number of fields.
Now, I want to put each one of fileds in a file, and as lines.

Also, how do I change all Caps to low cases?


Can sombody please help me with this korn shell scripting?

Thanks!

[Redhat]

you can use some things like this:-

cat file |while read line
First=echo $line |awk '{print $1}'
Second=echo $line |awk '{print $2}'
etc

for converting CAPS to LOW use

tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
see man tr for more info

[spex]

Hello,

> Now, I want to put each one of fileds in a
> file, and as lines.

$ echo ${myvar} | awk '{print $1}' >> field1

> Also, how do I change all Caps to low cases?

There are many ways to do this, but the best way is through a shell built-in:

$ typeset -l mylcvar=${myvar} && echo ${mylcvar}

Other options:

$ echo ${myvar} | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
$ echo ${myvar} | dd conv=lcase 2>/dev/null

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90046/

PCS

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Let's see you want a Korn shell solution? Ok, I will do it in ksh:

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#!/usr/bin/ksh

typeset STAT=0
awk '{ for (i = 1; i <= NF; ++i) print tolower($i); }'
STAT=${?}
exit ${STAT}
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Now use it like this:
my.sh < infile > outfile

[Sandman!]

# awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) print tolower($i) >"out"}' infile