Hello, I am still considered a newbie and I am still learning when it comes down to a little bit of scripting. Here is my problem:
I will show you what the file looks like when I cat it:

2233|charles harris |g.m. |sales |12/12/52| 90000
9876|bill johnson |director |production|03/12/50|130000

The list is longer, I just shortened it to show what it looks like.

What I want is to chang the person's names in the second field from lower case to upper case using some kind of loop. Now I tried using cut, grep, sed commands and the for loop and I can't quite get it to work right. I know it's probably a simple thing to do. Help me please. Thanks

-bhert

man awk(1)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

Something like the following should work: awk thinks of lines as records; -F| tells it to use | as a field separator and $2 tells it to use the second field.

Moy

Probably easier ways, but this should work. Change all ocurences of out.txt to the name of your file.

Thanks for the help Moy. For some reason I forgot about awk.
Here is the code I made:

The result when I cat the new file:

2233|CHARLES HARRIS |g.m. |sales |12/12/52| 90000
9876|BILL JOHNSON |director |production|03/12/50|130000

Thanks again, I am going to read some more about awk

-bhert

hepburnenthorpe, I didn't see your post after I posted my code. I was surprised that it's pretty much the same as mine except for the redirection to /tmp and back to the file. Thanks for putting it up.

-bhert