[headbirth]

Hi, I'm looking for a way to take some clipboard text and change it's case to UPPER or Initial Caps, or all lowercase.

Any ideas or links?

[larkost]

Since you titled this with "shell script" here is a quick one to change the contents of the (unstyled) pasteboard to all upper-case:

Code:
pbpaste | awk '{print toupper($0)}' | pbcopy

or to all lower case:

Code:
pbpaste | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | pbcopy

This is only good when it is text only. If that text is styled, then the pasteboard will contain rtf, and this script will go bad in many ways. You could in theory write a awk command that would avoid the rtf command strings, but that is not worth my time.

I have a feeling that you would probably be better with an AppleScript to get the current selection and apply some text transforms, but you never really said what you want to do with this.

[headbirth]

Thanks! It's a great place for me to start.

[chabig]

Try WordService.

Chris

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by headbirth:
Hi, I'm looking for a way to take some clipboard text and change it's case to UPPER or Initial Caps, or all lowercase.

Any ideas or links?

Hey that's a fun one, lemme try!

To uppercase:

Code:
pbpaste | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | pbcopy

To lowercase:

Code:
pbpaste | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | pbcopy

Initial Caps... I don't know sed, awk, and tr well enough... haha. I'll play with it, though.

[headbirth]

WordService is great ... but I'm actually trying to write some of it's functionality into an OnMyCommand CM menu so the actions are available in the CM and the keystrokes don't conflict with apps.