gedwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) (08/28/90)
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: >>yeah, the not very well documented "y" command. >> y/a-z/A-Z/ > >bzzzzt. Minus 10 points! got to say: >y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ >-- >Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM +1-708-979-6364 To convert lowercase to uppercase with sed I use s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g -- Internet: Gordon.Edwards@Atlanta.NCR.COM NCR Corporation UUCP: uunet!ncrlnk!ncratl!gedwards 2651 Satellite Blvd. Amateur Radio: N4VPH Duluth, GA 30136
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (08/28/90)
In article <522@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>, gedwards@ncratl (Gordon Edwards) writes: | To convert lowercase to uppercase with sed I use | | s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g Hmm. $ echo 'Try this.' | sed s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g T[A-Z][A-Z] [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]. $ What weird version of Unix are you using? (I'm not denying that it may work on *some* Unix-like OS, but it doesn't work on the One True Unix or BSD-derivatives or [blech] System V that I know of.) #ifdef NEWSADMIN_NOTE And, get your newsposter fixed. "Re^2" is broke. Phased out ages ago. #endif Just another UNIX hacker, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/
thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom) (08/28/90)
In article <522@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> gedwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: >>yeah, the not very well documented "y" command. >> y/a-z/A-Z/ > >bzzzzt. Minus 10 points! got to say: >y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ >-- >Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM +1-708-979-6364 To convert lowercase to uppercase with sed I use s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g Not with any sed I know of. I guess you don't mean to replace each lowercase letter by the string '[A-Z]'. Minus 10 pts! Thomas -- Real life: Thomas Tornblom Email: thomas@uplog.se Snail mail: TeleLOGIC Uppsala AB Phone: +46 18 189406 Box 1218 Fax: +46 18 132039 S - 751 42 Uppsala, Sweden