I believe it will not satisfy his requirement:
the proof for it's failure:
so, even if you apply
for $1 it will convert whole string to uppercase, but his requirement is to make the first letter aslone uppercase.
I have a file where some records have been updated the wrong way and need to fix it quickly since the amount can be alot.
Every record where any of the first 4 characters are in upper case need to be changed to lowercase.
Records can have '#' in position-1 for comments. These musn't be... (2 Replies)
I have a file tmp.out with contents:
2008-08-09 05:11:01
2008-08-09 08:52:59
2008-08-11 12:08:34
2008-08-11 12:15:40
I want the output to be:
3|0|1|71|2008-08-09 05:11:01|2008-08-30 11:19:28
4|0|1|71|2008-08-09 08:52:59|2008-08-30 11:19:28
5|0|1|71|2008-08-11 12:08:34|2008-08-30 11:19:28... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a small problem with awk.
I want to search { and } at a particular position in a string using awk.
I tried
echo "hello{hi" | awk '{if(substr($0,6,1)=="{"){print "TRUE"}}'
but no success :mad:
i know it can be done in many ways and i know them also.. but my... (6 Replies)
How can I change a string contained in a variable to upper case using csh ???
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I think I've got it, using tr has solved the problem
set opt = ` echo $opt | tr "" "" ` (1 Reply)
As this function returns the address of the string corressponding to the errno value provided to it. Can someone please let me know where, in the memory, it could be (on freeBSD).
The MAN page tells under the BUG section that "For unknown error numbers, the strerror() function will return its... (5 Replies)
Hi...all
I want to pass array name for some function using loop anyone is having idea ?
here is scenario
echo | awk '
BEGIN{
A1="foo1"
A2="foo2"
A3="foo3"
}
function test1(a,b,c){
print a,b,c
... (10 Replies)
I have a file that has a pattern 2 lines, blanktwo line
If encountering the first line, the 2nd line need to be converted to UPPERCASE...or...conver the 2nd line after ablank into uppercase
Is there a 'tr' function in awk..(probably the best tool over sed) ?
i.e.
......................... (6 Replies)
Hello is it possible with awk or sed to replace any white space with the previous line characters in the same position?
I am asking this because the file I have doesn't always follow a pattern.
For example the file I have is the result of a command to obtain windows ACLs:
icacls C:\ /t... (5 Replies)
toupper(3C) Standard C Library Functions toupper(3C)NAME
toupper - transliterate lower-case characters to upper-case
SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h>
int toupper(int c);
DESCRIPTION
The toupper() 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 toupper() represents a lower-case letter, and there
exists a corresponding upper-case letter (as defined by character type information in the program locale category LC_CTYPE), the result
is the corresponding upper-case letter. All other arguments in the domain are returned unchanged.
RETURN VALUES
On successful completion, toupper() returns the upper-case letter corresponding to the argument passed.
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 _toupper(3C), setlocale(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 14 Aug 2002 toupper(3C)