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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SED (or other) upper to lowercase, with first letter of first word in each sentence uppercase Post 302652769 by dockline on Thursday 7th of June 2012 04:55:22 PM
Old 06-07-2012
I'm using Centos 6.2 on a web server.
Shell/bin/bash
SED (or an alternative) would be run on a schedule using cron.

I understand "sentence" isn't a programming term - I simply mean the normal grammar usage (a number of words that ends with a period). Here is an example from a text file:

Quote:
AN UPPER RIDGE EXTENDS OVER THE W CARIBBEAN WITH THE AXIS FROM OVER CENTRAL AMERICA THROUGH THE GULF OF HONDURAS ACROSS W CUBA INTO THE W ATLC. A SECOND UPPER RIDGE EXTENDS FROM THE W TROPICAL ATLC OVER THE LESSER ANTILLES INDUCING AN INVERTED UPPER TROUGH OVER THE CARIBBEAN EXTENDING FROM THE MONA PASSAGE TO OVER COLOMBIA.
The desired output would look like this:

Quote:
An upper ridge extends over the w caribbean with the axis from over central america through the gulf of honduras across w cuba into the w atlc. A second upper ridge extends from the w tropical atlc over the lesser antilles inducing an inverted upper trough over the caribbean extending from the mona passage to over colombia.
Last edited by dockline; 06-07-2012 at 06:19 PM..
 

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TOUPPER(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							TOUPPER(3)

NAME

       toupper, tolower - convert letter to upper or lower case

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ctype.h>

       int toupper(int c);
       int tolower(int c);

DESCRIPTION

       toupper() converts the letter c to upper case, if possible.

       tolower() converts the letter c to lower case, if possible.

       If c is not an unsigned char value, or EOF, the behavior of these functions is undefined.

RETURN VALUE

       The value returned is that of the converted letter, or c if the conversion was not possible.

CONFORMING TO

       C89, C99, 4.3BSD.

BUGS

       The  details  of  what constitutes an uppercase or lowercase letter depend on the current locale.  For example, the default "C" locale does
       not know about umlauts, so no conversion is done for them.

       In some non-English locales, there are lowercase letters with no corresponding uppercase equivalent; the German sharp s is one example.

SEE ALSO

       isalpha(3), setlocale(3), towlower(3), towupper(3), locale(7)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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