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# 1  
Old 10-18-2011
How to change the second to nth string in lower case
I have a file which contains something like this

REIGN ANGEL

i want to change REIGN to Reign and ANGEL to Angel.
# 2  
Old 10-18-2011
Code:
 echo "REIGN ANGEL " |tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"

# 3  
Old 10-18-2011
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Hi,
Code:
 man tr

Cheers,
Ranga:-)
# 4  
Old 10-18-2011
Code:
echo "REIGN ANGEL " |awk '{print tolower($0)}'

# 5  
Old 10-18-2011
Code:
echo "TEST MAIL" | nawk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){printf("%s%s ",toupper(substr($i,1,1)),tolower(substr($i,2,length($i))))}}'

# 6  
Old 10-18-2011
thanks to all those who posted their answers. Appreciate all your reply.
THANKS itkamaraj, your answer was the one i'm looking for.


CHEERS TO ALL!Smilie
# 7  
Old 10-18-2011
Also using sed command:
Code:
sed -e 's/REIDN/ANGEL/g; s/Reign/Angel/g' filename

 
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