ATTN: AWK GURUS!!! (lower to upper conversion)

Ivor Williams ivor at geac.UUCP
Fri Mar 25 01:14:53 AEST 1988


In article <20805 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs at 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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