AWK syntax /bailing script error when executing in UNIX Post: 302501508

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tolower

TOLOWER(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						TOLOWER(3)

NAME

     tolower -- upper case to lower case letter conversion

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <ctype.h>

     int
     tolower(int c);

DESCRIPTION

     The tolower() function converts an upper-case letter to the corresponding lower-case letter.

RETURN VALUES

     If the argument is an upper-case letter, the tolower() function returns the corresponding lower-case letter if there is one; otherwise the
     argument is returned unchanged.

SEE ALSO

     ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3),
     isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), toupper(3), ascii(7)

STANDARDS

     The tolower() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'').

CAVEATS

     The argument to tolower() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.	See the CAVEATS section of
     ctype(3) for more details.

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