[PLUG] Changing Case in a List of Names

Michael michael at jamhome.us
Thu Apr 16 16:23:19 UTC 2009


Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I have a list of company names all in upper case; one per line. Can I use
> a combination of sed, tr, and other tools to automate converting them all to
> mixed case (i.e., initial letter uppercase, all others lower case)? There
> must be a shell script already written to do this, but not in the reference
> books I have.

perl -ne 'print ucfirst lc;'  FILENAME

comes to mind.

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