The best way that I have found is to use the following
VARIABLE=`echo $VARIABLE|dd conv=lcase 2>/dev/null`
Do a man on dd to see the other useful goodies.
The 2>/dev/null is optional, but does gives a cleaner output.
Regards
Enrico
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
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> tr will translate from on to the other. take a look at man tr. Also a
> thread awhile back that mentioned this. some thing like cat file |tr
> [a-z] [A-Z]>newfile will probably come close but this is a guess.
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> For the Title Case Situation you will probably have to get tricky.
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