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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Substituting Characters using SED Post 302305595 by altamaha on Thursday 9th of April 2009 10:01:49 AM
Old 04-09-2009
I spoke too soon Franklin. Your solution did work like a champ for record #2. I am trying to create a loop using your logic to assure that all records have lowercase in field 3.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
>uncap.txt
i=0
while read line
       do nawk -F: 'NR=="$i"{$3=tolower($3)}1' OFS=":" >> uncap.txt
       let i=$i+1
done < CAP.txt

This deletes the first record, and does not set filed #3 tolower in any record.
Thanks for the help,
JB
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

tolower

tolower(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					       tolower(3C)

NAME

       tolower - transliterate upper-case characters to lower-case

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ctype.h>

       int tolower(int c);

DESCRIPTION

       The  tolower()  function  has  as  a domain a type int, the value of which is representable as an unsigned char or the value of EOF. If the
       argument has any other value, the argument is returned unchanged. If the argument of tolower() represents an upper-case letter,	and  there
       exists  a  corresponding lower-case letter (as defined by character type information in the program locale category LC_CTYPE),	the result
       is the corresponding lower-case letter. All other arguments in the domain are returned unchanged.

RETURN VALUES

       On successful completion, tolower() returns the lower-case letter corresponding to the argument passed. Otherwise, it returns the  argument
       unchanged.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       _tolower(3C), setlocale(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Aug 2002 						       tolower(3C)
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