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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Converting to uppercase/lowercase in sed
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.211842.2290@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 21:18:42 GMT
References: <3766@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1990Aug16.232151.23436@iwarp.intel.com> <7331@star.cs.vu.nl>
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In-Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)

In article <7331@star.cs.vu.nl>, maart@cs (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
| )yeah, the not very well documented "y" command.
| )
| )	y/a-z/A-Z/
| 
| Doesn't work on SunOS 4.0.3c and a whole lotta other UNIX versions.  :-(
| 
| 	y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/
| 
| POSIX had better fix this...

Hmm, it would have worked *after* being fed through the sed-to-Perl
translator... :-)

Shows you how much *I've* used that in sed.

Just another (former) sed hacker,
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