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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Lower->Upper in AWK (was: Re: cascading pipes in awk)
Message-ID: <63720005@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 17:56:08 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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    This may make awk purists wail, but why not use:

    awk 'some stuff;
	some condition {print | "tr [a-z] [A-Z]"}' |
    awk 'other stuff'

    It works, albeit slow due to two awk calls, but it saves a lot of typing
    over some of the other suggestions.