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From: ivor@geac.UUCP (Ivor Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ATTN: AWK GURUS!!! (lower to upper conversion)
Message-ID: <2487@geac.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 15:14:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2487
Posted: Thu Mar 24 10:14:53 1988
References: <16782@beta.UUCP> <20805@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: ivor@geac.UUCP (Ivor Williams)
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In article <20805@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>>	Convert possibly mixed-case strings to upper-case.
>
>The attached works under 4.3bsd as you required.
> [ wonderfully economical awk script followed...]

Very good: I've saved that one as an example of the sort of thing awk can
do.  Just one question, though: shouldn't that have been $0 rather than $1,
or did I miss something in the initial question?

Ivor
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