Re^2: Converting to uppercase/lowercase in sed

Thomas Tornblom thomas at uplog.se
Tue Aug 28 15:30:12 AEST 1990


In article <522 at ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> gedwards at ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:


   Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM writes:

   >merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
   >>yeah, the not very well documented "y" command.
   >>	y/a-z/A-Z/
   >
   >bzzzzt. Minus 10 points! got to say:
   >y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/
   >-- 
   >Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM +1-708-979-6364

   To convert lowercase to uppercase with sed I use

      s/[a-z]/[A-Z]/g


Not with any sed I know of. I guess you don't mean to replace each lowercase
letter by the string '[A-Z]'.
Minus 10 pts!

Thomas
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