Re^2: Converting to uppercase/lowercase in sed

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <522 at ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>, gedwards at 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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