1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings & Happy New Years To All! A client of mine FTP'ed their files up to the server and it all ended up being in UPPERCASE when it all should be in lowercase. Is there a builtin command or a script anyone knows of that will automagically convert all files to lowercase? Please advise asap... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to convert string into uppercase string. How can i do that ? Ex: Enter the user name: read name show=upper(name) echo $show --- This output should be the uppercase output. Thanks (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

should be a simple question, I am trying to uppercase every first character in a word on the list. abc google cnn services My first thought was sed 'y/^/^/', but it changed all the characters, not just the first character. any thoughts? (7 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have no variable and no file i just want to convert AJIT to ajit with some command in UNIX can anybody help (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, i have a file and i want to convert all uppercase letters to lowercase letters which are in my file. how can i do this. Thanx (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a string(can be mix of upper and lower case) and need the first three chars of the string to be converted to uppercase (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Input: hello world monkey Output should be: Hello World Monkey How can it be done with perl,sed,awk or bash? (9 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a list of files in a directory whose names are all in uppercasse, including the file format for eg *.MP3 . I would like to convert these to the normal way we write it ie ABC.MP3 to be converted to Abc.mp3 . I know that this can be done manually by using a lot of "mv" or rename... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file name : var=UsrAccChgRpt I want to make them upper case. Tried: $var | tr Error: tr: Invalid combination of options and Strings. Usage: tr | -ds | -s | -ds | -s ] String1 String2 tr { -d | -s | -d | -s } String1 Could you please help. I am using AIX... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, This is not a problem specific question. While surfing on google to find a solution for the latest error messages I have received from command line, I found some suggestions regarding usage of linux commands: Could it be a problem specific comment or in most cases, `` causes issue?... (6 Replies)