How to apply a "tolower" AWK to a few parts of a document

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi people,
i have a nice problem to solve..
in an text page i must change all the "*.php" occourences to the respective lowercase..

Example:

...
<tr><td>
<form action="outputEstrazione.php" method="get">
<table cellspacing='0,5' bgcolor='#000000'><tr><td>
<font size='2' color='#ffffff' face='tahoma'><b>Lettura documento input</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>
<table width='100%' height='100%' bgcolor='#ffffff' cellpadding='1'><tr><td>
...

must be modified in:

...
<tr><td>
<form action="outputestrazione.php" method="get">
<table cellspacing='0,5' bgcolor='#000000'><tr><td>
<font size='2' color='#ffffff' face='tahoma'><b>Lettura documento input</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>
<table width='100%' height='100%' bgcolor='#ffffff' cellpadding='1'><tr><td>
...

("outputEstrazione.php" >>> "outputestrazione.php")
Can you help me? It seems so simply but it's not for me :confused:
tnx! :wink:

2

you are using any webserver and want to convert it on runtime? or you just have a text file?

In general,
for a text file, you can use

if you must want to use awk..

3

you can use sed to do that also:

sed  '/\.php/{
h
s/<.*\"\(.*\.php\)\".*>$/\1/
y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyj/
G
s/\(.*\)\n\(<*[^"]*\"\).*\.php\(\".*>\)/\2\1\3/
}' filename

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

4

Or you could use perl:

$
$ cat input.txt
<tr><td>
<form action="outputEstrazione.php" method="get">
<table cellspacing='0,5' bgcolor='#000000'><tr><td>
<font size='2' color='#ffffff' face='tahoma'><b>Lettura documento input</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>
<table width='100%' height='100%' bgcolor='#ffffff' cellpadding='1'><tr><td>
$
$
$ perl -ne '{if (/(^.*?")(.*?)(\.php.*$)/) {print $1.lc$2.$3,"\n"} else {print}}' input.txt
<tr><td>
<form action="outputestrazione.php" method="get">
<table cellspacing='0,5' bgcolor='#000000'><tr><td>
<font size='2' color='#ffffff' face='tahoma'><b>Lettura documento input</b></font></td></tr><tr><td>
<table width='100%' height='100%' bgcolor='#ffffff' cellpadding='1'><tr><td>
$
$

HTH,
tyler_durden

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5

how about below perl code?

open $fh,"<","yourfile";
while(<$fh>){
	s/\b(.*)\.php/lc $1 . '.php'/e;
	print;
}
6

hey great great thanks!!
Great solutions, i've chosen the perl one and it works perfectly:
perl -ne '{if (/(^.*?")(.*?)(\.php.*$)/) {print $1.lc$2.$3,"\n"} else {print}}' input.txt

I've never used perl, but i often see it's very useful and want to learn it, do you have any link to a good tutorial (not too complex, for a beginner)?

Thanks again for all the replies! You are simply the best UNIX forum on the net :wink:

p.s. sorry for my bad english ^^