I have an output like Johny-Smith, Juarez-Hugo, etc. and I need instead S, H, etc. Basically, I need the last uppercase letter in a string and that's it. If this is possible in any built in Linux tools (ex awk, sed, grep, etc.) it would be greatly appreciated.
Do you need like this ?
echo "Johny-Smith" | sed 's/^.*\([A-Z]\)[^A-Z]*$/\1/g'
Test:
$ echo "Johny-Smith-Hello Johny-Smith" | sed 's/.*\([A-Z]\)[^A-Z]*/\1/g'
S
With GNU grep and if PCRE option is available
$ echo 'Johny-Smith' | grep -oP '.*\K[A-Z]'
S
$ echo 'Juarez-Hugo' | grep -oP '.*\K[A-Z]'
H
-o prints only matched portion
-P Perl regular expression
.*\K positive lookbehind, not part of output
[A-Z] any uppercase character
with perl, see perldoc for command line options explanation
$ # prints the string within captured group
$ echo 'Johny-Smith' | perl -lne 'print /.*([A-Z])/'
S
$ echo 'Juarez-Hugo' | perl -lne 'print /.*([A-Z])/'
H
In Bash:
$ var="Johny-Smith-Hello Johny-Smith"; var="${var//[^[:upper:]]/}";echo "${var: -1}"
S
${var//[^[:upper:]]/} remove all non-upper case letter chars
echo ${var: -1} output the last one
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I want to replace kAbcdedf with abcdef in a file. I try to use the sed command. Some suggestions said, if I input this command
echo 'abc'|sed 's/^../\u&/'
the result will be
Abc
but on macOS (using zsh), the result is
uabc
Does anyone know the correct way to toggle cases with the sed command?
How can I search kAbcd and then replace that string with abcd, i.e., remove k and uppercase the next letter after k?
$ # with GNU sed
$ echo 'kAbcd' | sed -E 's/k(.)/\l\1/'
abcd
$ # with perl if GNU sed is not available
$ echo 'kAbcd' | perl -pe 's/k(.)/\l$1/'
abcd
\l will lowercase the first character of given argument
use g modifier to replace all such occurrences in a line
As mentioned by Wiktor Stribiżew in comments, see also: How to use GNU sed on Mac OS X
How to use sed and regex to replace the text between a variable number of one token?
Example of input:
/abc/bcd/cde/
Expected output:
/../../../
Tried:
Command: echo "/abc/bcd/cde/" | sed 's/\/.*\//\/..\//g' output: /../
Using perl and look around assertions :
$ perl -pe 's|(?<=/)\w{3}(?=/)|..|g' file
/../../../
Using sed :
$ echo "/abc/bcd/cde/" | sed -E 's|[a-z]{3}|..|g'
/../../../
Replace every substring of non-slashes ([^/]\+) with two dots:
$> echo "/abc/bcd/cde/" | sed 's$[^/]\+$..$g'
# => /../../../
Base on #Gilles Quenot implementation but, capturing any alpha numeric chars between //
$ echo "/abddc/bcqsdd/cdde/" | sed -E 's|(/)?[^/]+/|\1../|g'
I have a file that has a line stating
version = "12.0.08-SNAPSHOT"
The word version and quoted strings can occur on multiple lines in that file.
I am looking for a single line bash statement that can output the following string:
12.0.08-SNAPSHOT
The version can have RELEASE tag too instead of SNAPSHOT.
So to summarize, given
version = "12.0.08-SNAPSHOT"
expected output: 12.0.08-SNAPSHOT
And given
version = "12.0.08-RELEASE"
expected output: 12.0.08-RELEASE
The following command prints strings enquoted in version = "...":
grep -Po '\bversion\s*=\s*"\K.*?(?=")' yourFile
-P enables perl regexes, which allow us to use features like \K and so on.
-o only prints matched parts instead of the whole lines.
\b ensures that version starts at a word boundary and we do not match things like abcversion.
\s stands for any kind of whitespace.
\K lets grep forget, that it matched the part before \K. The forgotten part will not be printed.
.*? matches as few chararacters as possible (the matching part will be printed) ...
(?=") ... until we see a ", which won't be included in the match either (this is called a lookahead).
Not all grep implementations support the -P option. Alternatively, you can use perl, as described in this answer:
perl -nle 'print $& if m{\bversion\s*=\s*"\K.*?(?=")}' yourFile
Seems like a job for cut:
$ echo 'version = "12.0.08-SNAPSHOT"' | cut -d'"' -f2
12.0.08-SNAPSHOT
$ echo 'version = "12.0.08-RELEASE"' | cut -d'"' -f2
12.0.08-RELEASE
Portable solution:
$ echo 'version = "12.0.08-RELEASE"' |sed -E 's/.*"(.*)"/\1/g'
12.0.08-RELEASE
or even:
$ perl -pe 's/.*"(.*)"/\1/g'.
$ awk -F"\"" '{print $2}'
I have an input string in the following format:
bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00
I want to extract "ABC-12345". Regex for that format in C# looks like this:
.\*\\/([A-Z]+-[0-9]+).\*
How can I do that in a bash script? I've tried sed and awk but had no success because I need to extract value from the capturing group and skip the rest.
If your grep supports -P then you could use the below grep commands.
$ echo 'bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00' | grep -oP '/\K[A-Z]+-\d+'
ABC-12345
\K keeps the text matched so far out of the overall regex match.
$ echo 'bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00' | grep -oP '(?<=/)[A-Z]+-\d+'
ABC-12345
(?<=/) Positive lookbehind which asserts that the match must be preceded by a / symbol.
Through sed,
$ echo 'bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00' | sed 's~.*/\([A-Z]\+-[0-9]\+\).*~\1~'
ABC-12345
echo "bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00"| perl -ane '/.*?([A-Z]+\-[0-9]+).*/;print $1."\n"'
You could try something like:
echo "bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00" | egrep -o '[A-Z]+-[0-9]+'
OUTPUT:
ABC-12345
If you do not like to use regex, you can use this awk:
echo "bugfix/ABC-12345-1-00" | awk -F\/ '{print $NF}'
ABC-12345-1-00
Or just this:
awk -F\/ '$0=$NF'
I have a textfile in which some words are printed in ALL CAPS. I want to be able to just convert everything in the textfile to lowercase, using sed. That means that the first sentence would then read, 'i have a textfile in which some words are printed in all caps.'
With tr:
# Converts upper to lower case
$ tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' < input.txt > output.txt
# Converts lower to upper case
$ tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' < input.txt > output.txt
Or, sed on GNU (but not BSD or Mac as they don't support \L or \U):
# Converts upper to lower case
$ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\L\1/' input.txt > output.txt
# Converts lower to upper case
$ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\U\1/' input.txt > output.txt
If you have GNU extensions, you can use sed's \L (lower entire match, or until \L [lower] or \E [end - toggle casing off] is reached), like so:
sed 's/.*/\L&/' <input >output
Note: '&' means the full match pattern.
As a side note, GNU extensions include \U (upper), \u (upper next character of match), \l (lower next character of match). For example, if you wanted to camelcase a sentence:
$ sed -E 's/\w+/\u&/g' <<< "Now is the time for all good men..." # Camel Case
Now Is The Time For All Good Men...
Note: Since the assumption is we have GNU extensions, we can use sequences such as \w (match a word character) and the -E (extended regex) option, which relieves you of having to escape the one-or-more quantifier (+) and certain other special regex characters.
You also can do this very easily with awk, if you're willing to consider a different tool:
echo "UPPER" | awk '{print tolower($0)}'
Here are many solutions :
To upercaser with perl, tr, sed and awk
perl -ne 'print uc'
perl -npe '$_=uc'
perl -npe 'tr/[a-z]/[A-Z]/'
perl -npe 'tr/a-z/A-Z/'
tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
sed y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/
sed 's/\([a-z]\)/\U\1/g'
sed 's/.*/\U&/'
awk '{print toupper($0)}'
To lowercase with perl, tr, sed and awk
perl -ne 'print lc'
perl -npe '$_=lc'
perl -npe 'tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/'
perl -npe 'tr/A-Z/a-z/'
tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
sed y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/
sed 's/\([A-Z]\)/\L\1/g'
sed 's/.*/\L&/'
awk '{print tolower($0)}'
Complicated bash to lowercase :
while read v;do v=${v//A/a};v=${v//B/b};v=${v//C/c};v=${v//D/d};v=${v//E/e};v=${v//F/f};v=${v//G/g};v=${v//H/h};v=${v//I/i};v=${v//J/j};v=${v//K/k};v=${v//L/l};v=${v//M/m};v=${v//N/n};v=${v//O/o};v=${v//P/p};v=${v//Q/q};v=${v//R/r};v=${v//S/s};v=${v//T/t};v=${v//U/u};v=${v//V/v};v=${v//W/w};v=${v//X/x};v=${v//Y/y};v=${v//Z/z};echo "$v";done
Complicated bash to uppercase :
while read v;do v=${v//a/A};v=${v//b/B};v=${v//c/C};v=${v//d/D};v=${v//e/E};v=${v//f/F};v=${v//g/G};v=${v//h/H};v=${v//i/I};v=${v//j/J};v=${v//k/K};v=${v//l/L};v=${v//m/M};v=${v//n/N};v=${v//o/O};v=${v//p/P};v=${v//q/Q};v=${v//r/R};v=${v//s/S};v=${v//t/T};v=${v//u/U};v=${v//v/V};v=${v//w/W};v=${v//x/X};v=${v//y/Y};v=${v//z/Z};echo "$v";done
Simple bash to lowercase :
while read v;do echo "${v,,}"; done
Simple bash to uppercase :
while read v;do echo "${v^^}"; done
Note that ${v,} and ${v^} only change the first letter.
You should use it that way :
(while read v;do echo "${v,,}"; done) < input_file.txt > output_file.txt
I like some of the answers here, but there is a sed command that should do the trick on any platform:
sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/'
Anyway, it's easy to understand. And knowing about the y command can come in handy sometimes.
If you have GNU sed (likely on Linux, but not on *BSD or macOS):
echo "Hello MY name is SUJIT " | sed 's/./\L&/g'
Output:
hello my name is sujit
If you are using posix sed
Selection for any case for a pattern (converting the searched pattern with this sed than use the converted pattern in you wanted command using regex:
echo "${MyOrgPattern} | sed "s/[aA]/[aA]/g;s/[bB]/[bB]/g;s/[cC]/[cC]/g;s/[dD]/[dD]/g;s/[eE]/[eE]/g;s/[fF]/[fF]/g;s/[gG]/[gG]/g;s/[hH]/[hH]/g;s/[iI]/[iI]/g;s/[jJ]/[jJ]/g;s/[kK]/[kK]/g;s/[lL]/[lL]/g;s/[mM]/[mM]/g;s/[nN]/[nN]/g;s/[oO]/[oO]/g;s/[pP]/[pP]/g;s/[qQ]/[qQ]/g;s/[rR]/[rR]/g;s/[sS]/[sS]/g;s/[tT]/[tT]/g;s/[uU]/[uU]/g;s/[vV]/[vV]/g;s/[wW]/[wW]/g;s/[xX]/[xX]/g;s/[yY]/[yY]/g;s/[zZ]/[zZ]/g" | read -c MyNewPattern
YourInputStreamCommand | egrep "${MyNewPattern}"
convert in lower case
sed "s/[aA]/a/g;s/[bB]/b/g;s/[cC]/c/g;s/[dD]/d/g;s/[eE]/e/g;s/[fF]/f/g;s/[gG]/g/g;s/[hH]/h/g;s/[iI]/i/g;s/j/[jJ]/g;s/[kK]/k/g;s/[lL]/l/g;s/[mM]/m/g;s/[nN]/n/g;s/[oO]/o/g;s/[pP]/p/g;s/[qQ]/q/g;s/[rR]/r/g;s/[sS]/s/g;s/[tT]/t/g;s/[uU]/u/g;s/[vV]/v/g;s/[wW]/w/g;s/[xX]/x/g;s/[yY]/y/g;s/[zZ]/z/g"
same for uppercase replace lower letter between // by upper equivalent in the sed
Have fun
short, sweet and you don't even need redirection :-)
perl -p -i -e 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' file
Instead of typing this long expression:
sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/' input
One could use this:
sed 'y/'$(printf "%s" {A..Z} "/" {a..z} )'/' input