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Old 06-10-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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We do not do homework for you. This is clearly homework.
1. use a while read record .. do ... done <inputfilename loop. This reads the file line by line.

2. tr will uppercase or lowercase a whole sentence.

3. wc -w will count the words.

Next, you get to show us what you've done with this.