Replace a string in quote to uppercase

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I need to find all strings in single quote and change the case of the string to UPPER.

Example:

Input:
xyz abc ccc 'zxxx7U'
dfsdf sdfdd aaa 'oR77' and 'or88'

Output:
xyz abc ccc 'ZXXX7U'
dfsdf sdfdd aaa 'OR77' and 'OR88'

Appreciate your help!!

Thanks
Selva

2 
sed "s/'\(.*\)'/'\U\1'/" file_name

HTH,
PL

3

I think a lazy match should be used (this works in GNU sed on matches on the same line)

sed "s/'\([^']*\)'/'\U\1'/g"
4 
awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i~/^'\''.*'\''$/) $i=toupper($i)}}1' urfile

interesting, one single quota need be used as '\'' in awk (three single quotas)

5

The \U does not work, other parts work.

\U works only in VI editor, but not while part of a script.

6

The solution of rdcwayx should work.

Another one:

awk -F"'" '{for(i=2;i<NF;i+=2){$i=toupper($i)}}1' OFS="'" file
7

It works now. thanks a lot.....