Originally published on 2017-09-28
Quite often I need to convert text in OSX buffer to uppercase.
This simple AppleScript does the trick.
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| set clipdata to get the clipboard as text | |
| set the clipboard to my change_case(the clipdata, "upper") | |
| on change_case(this_text, this_case) | |
| if this_case is "lower" then | |
| set the new_text to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of (this_text) & " | tr A-Z a-z" | |
| else | |
| set the new_text to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of (this_text) & " | tr a-z A-Z" | |
| end if | |
| return the new_text | |
| end change_case |