Re: fastest way to translate large file to uppercase

From: Chuck Dillon (spam_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:56:55 -0600

John Leslie wrote:

> Before I spend time testing this I wondered if anyone has any idea
> what would be the fastest way to transalte all lowercase values in a
> file to uppercase :
>
> tr or awk or maybe sed?

I would guess dd (i.e. conv=ucase), with a hefty block size, would be
fastest.

-- ced 

-- 
Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.

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