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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: case command
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:42:41 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> Looking for a system command that a I can pip a file through to change 
> all uppercase content to lower case.
> 
> Is there such a command line command?

Several ones. One is to use tr:

	... | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | ...

Or with character classes:

	... | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:] | ...

You can also use awk for this task:

	... | awk '{ print tolower($0) }' | ...

You can use this within the awk portion of your script, too.

Or shortened:

	... | awk '{ print tolower }' | ...

But keep in mind: Things like german Umlauts usually won't
be processed correctly.

Those are a few possible solutions. There are more. ;-)



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