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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: Converting to uppercase/lowercase in sed
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.004949.3340@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 00:49:49 GMT
References: <3766@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1990Aug16.232151.23436@iwarp.intel.com> <1990Aug17.220308.15418@cbnewse.att.com> <522@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
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In-Reply-To: gedwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards)

In article <522@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>, gedwards@ncratl (Gordon Edwards) writes:
| To convert lowercase to uppercase with sed I use
| 
|    s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g

Hmm.

$ echo 'Try this.' | sed s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g
T[A-Z][A-Z] [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z].
$

What weird version of Unix are you using?  (I'm not denying that it
may work on *some* Unix-like OS, but it doesn't work on the One True
Unix or BSD-derivatives or [blech] System V that I know of.)

#ifdef NEWSADMIN_NOTE
And, get your newsposter fixed.  "Re^2" is broke.  Phased out ages ago.
#endif

Just another UNIX hacker,
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