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 neither foo nor bar, what is the replacement pattern?

I started writing

sed 's/\(get[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*_\)\([A-Z]\)/\1 

but I'm stuck: I want to write "\2 lower case", how do I do that?

Maybe sed is not adapted?

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.

Answer 2

s/\(get[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*_\)\([A-Z]\)/\1\L\2/g 

Test:

$ echo 'getFoo_Bar' | sed -e 's/\(get[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*_\)\([A-Z]\)/\1\L\2/g' getFoo_bar