Re: make 'tr' (or something like it) a bash builtin ?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> if i'm simply unaware of such bash features, please feel free to yell at me :)
>
> when working on misc bash scripts, i semi-frequently find the need to do some
> sort of string processing along the lines of say changing a string to all
> upper case or lower case ... if 'tr' was a bash builtin, then that'd work
> with some `echo | tr` magic, but it something like
> ${foo//[[:lower:]]/[[:upper:]]} would be nice

    There are a couple of extensions available which do case
    conversion. First (naturally) is mine, which is available at:
    <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell/bash/loadables/>. Second, is
    William Park's bash extension at:
    <http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#bash>.

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