Bash: Underscore a String

Posted on by Robert Starsi

I find it weird that I did not find a ready made script for this immediately through a google search. So this is what I arrived at after some digging:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
read input
str="$(echo $input | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
printf ${str// /_}

Use it with stdin:

echo "Underscore Me" | underscore
underscore_me

I use this in TextMate when I need to convert normal english string/text into a parameter/key.