merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (08/23/89)
In article <455@puffin.uss.tek.com>, richl@penguin (Rick Lindsley) writes: | In article <4776@omepd.UUCP> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: | | But, get Perl. Then you can say something like: | | perl -pe 's|\w*z\w*|($& =~ y/a-z/A-Z/),$&|eg;' | | and do what you want in *one* line. | | Heck. If you're going to use another program, use the one made for just this | purpose and cut down on your typing even more. | | tr a-z A-Z | | Rick The original request was to uppercase only the words that contained the letter 'z'. Your tr command doesn't do that. -- /== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\ | on contract to Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \== Cute Quote: "Welcome to Oregon... Home of the California Raisins!" ==/