changing upper/lower case with tr

August 4th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Text Manipulation, tr | Hits: 34054 | 2 Comments »

tr is actually a common translator, here I show you how to convert

string from uppercase to lowercase

echo "UPPER" | tr [A-Z] [a-z]

from lower to upper

echo "lower" | tr [a-z] [A-Z]

［中文翻译］

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2 Responses to “changing upper/lower case with tr”

  1. tim Says:
    May 30th, 2011 at 1:10 am

    you need quotes on some linux (ubuntu)

    echo “UPPER” | tr “[A-Z]” “[a-z]“

  2. alexscott Says:
    January 31st, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    tr ‘[[:upper:]]’ ‘[[:lower:]]’

    or

    tr ‘[[:lower:]]’ ‘[[:upper:]]’

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