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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: merging 2 files
Keywords: sed awk perl join
Message-ID: <7@stoat.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 90 13:11:40 GMT
References: <757@sagpd1.UUCP> <102007@convex.convex.com>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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In article <102007@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
<In article <757@sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
<|For example, I want to convert the list
<|
<|FooBar			
<|blaTZ
<|GRMblE
<|WhEe
<|
<|into
<|
<|FooBar	foobar			
<|blaTZ	blatz
<|GRMblE	grmble
<|WhEe	whee
<|
<Use
<
<    % perl -n foo.pl
<
<where foo.pl consists of:
<
<    chop;
<    print $_, " ";
<    y/A-Z/a-z/;
<    print $_, "\n";

I know perl is wonderful, and I do use it a lot, but I can't help feeling that

	tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < file | lam file -s " " -

is easier (if you have `lam' I suppose, but there's an "if you have `perl'"
too ...).

BTW does anyone know what the state of rs, jot, and lam are ?  I find them all
very useful.

Rob
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