Steve Simon wrote:
Sorry, not really the place for such questions but...I always struggle with sed, awk is easy but sed makes my head hurt. I am trying to capitalise the first tow words on each line (I could use awk as well but I have to use sed so it seems churlish to start another process). capitalising the first word on the line is easy enough: h s/^(.).*/\1/ y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ x s/^.(.*)/\1/ x G s/\n// Though there maye be a much easier/more elegant way to do this, but for the 2nd word it gets much harder. What I really want is sam's ability to select a letter and operate on it rather than everything being line based as sed seems to be. any neat solutions? (extra points awarded for use of the branch operator :-) -Steve
I'd be sore tempted to move the needful files into an environment where I could use multiple passes of 'rpl' (or 'back in the day' BRIEF).
BFBI .. far less capable tools, perhaps - BUT by the time you've figured out how to even *tell* awk or sed what to do, I'm working on some other task...
'If at first you don't succeed - cheat' YMMV, Bill
