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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions aliasing command Post 302602281 by Peasant on Monday 27th of February 2012 02:44:01 AM
Old 02-27-2012
It's possible, but i fail to see the point of such program.
There are plenty of other programs which will do the same (sed, tr).

But ..

Make a shell function and put it in your .profile file (the name depends on your current shell for the user running it)

Code:
copyconv () {
UCASE=$(echo $3 | sed "s/u$/ucase/g")
dd $1 $2 $UCASE
}

You are better of with simplifying things for your copyconv command

Code:
copyconv () {
dd if=$1 of=$1.copy conv=ucase
}

You can then invoke it like :
Code:
copyconv trial

 

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LEARN ABOUT X11R4

type

type(1) 							   User Commands							   type(1)

NAME

       type - write a description of command type

SYNOPSIS

       type name...

DESCRIPTION

       The  type  utility  indicates how each name operand would be interpreted if used as a command. type displays information about each operand
       identifying the operand as a shell built-in, function, alias, hashed command, or keyword, and where applicable, may display  the  operand's
       path name.

       There is also a shell built-in version of type that is similar to the type utility.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       name	A name to be interpreted.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See  environ(5)	for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of type: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

       PATH	Determine the location of name.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       >0	An error occurred.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       typeset(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    1 Feb 1995								   type(1)
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