Change Uppercase to Lowercase with some exceptions
I need to change instances of uppercase to lowercase. The change occurs only when all of the characters are capital letters.
For instance, if the following was contained in the file:
it should be:
However:
should remain the same.
Also, if it were something like:
it should be:
Any simple ideas?
(I'm very much a beginner at Unix)
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-10-2010 at 04:32 AM..
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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?
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