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From: jackson@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Keith Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Selective translation
Message-ID: <1553@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 90 20:26:38 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Keith Jackson)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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I was trying to filter a file by making the first word lowercase and
leaving the rest as is.  My solution:

    % awk -f filt1.awk foo | tr A-Z a-z > stage1.b
    % pr -m -t -s -l1 stage1.a stage1.b > final

where filt1.awk contains:
{
    print $1;
    for (i = 2; i < NF; i++)
	printf("%s ", $i) >> "stage1.a";
    if (NF > 1)
	print $NF >> "stage1.a";
}

One flaw to this solution is that pr(1) ends up adding an extra
line with the separation character (tab) on it.  The question is, how
does one do this more easily?
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