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From: richl@penguin.USS.TEK.COM (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sed question: lower-to-upper case
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Date: 21 Aug 89 23:54:14 GMT
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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