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From: iann@cmsfl@labtam.oz (Ian Nicholls)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: merging 2 files
Message-ID: <815@cmsfl>
Date: 7 May 90 05:53:16 GMT
References: <757@sagpd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: iann@cmsfl.UUCP (Ian Nicholls)
Organization: Coles Myer Ltd. Melbourne Vic. Australia
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In article <757@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
>I need to change a lot of words with mixed upper and lower case letters into
>words of all lower case letters, from there I'm going to make a sed script
>to actually modify the words in our source.  So how do I make my list?

I often use the following with vi under minix and SysV.2, and I've had no
problems with vi taking commands from a file, like some have mentioned.  Maybe
they were BSD sites, or maybe only NCR SysV works.

	 echo 's/.*/& \\L&/' | vi file

The \L& translates the match into lower case (and \U& to upper case).  It's
documented somewhere in the vi manual.  I've just checked, and sed doesn't do
it.  The drawbacks are that maybe some vi's don't do it, and unless you
supress stdout (or stderr?), the screen gets messy.
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