How to Convert Text to Uppercase from the Shell ? Yes, I Know IT ! Ep 17

Published: 31 October 2017
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Converting a text to upper case? Well, that's a simple question ... with surprisingly subtle answers. Especially if you want to take into account internationalization issues...

How to convert text to uppercase from the shell?

You've probably noticed from my accent (pun intended), I'm a French native speaker. And it is always a shock when I see a shell script or another piece of software that fails at handling accented letters or characters with diacritical marks...

But that's a mistake you won't inadvertently do since in this video I show you several classical ways to convert characters to upper case from the shell. And most important, I will explain how and why they work--or don't work--with characters outside the ASCII range.


How to convert text to upper case from the shell? After all, this is the kind of "trick question" I could ask in a job interview. Watch this video, and you too, you'll be prepared to give a well-argued answer!

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Music : "Howling" by Gunnar Olsen


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