upper- to lower-case using sed

Question

I\'d like to change the following patterns:

getFoo_Bar

to:

getFoo_bar

(note the lower b)

Knowing

Answer 1

To change getFoo_Bar to getFoo_bar using sed :

echo "getFoo_Bar" | sed 's/^\(.\{7\}\)\(.\)\(.*\)$/\1\l\2\3/'

The upper and lowercase letters are handled by :

• \U Makes all text to the right uppercase.
• \u makes only the first character to the right uppercase.
• \L Makes all text to the right lowercase.
• \l Makes only the first character to the right lower case. (Note its a lowercase letter L)

The example is just one method for pattern matching, just based on modifying a single chunk of text. Using the example, getFoo_BAr transforms to getFoo_bAr, note the A was not altered.