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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] sed question (OT)
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:31:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98f84e4cfbb56eb6e93bdd18a3360e9a@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<d1c554290910290929p3980a256hf075042ca3a3917b@mail.gmail.com>>

On Thu Oct 29 12:31:23 EDT 2009, iru.muzgo@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >> To capitalize the first letter of each line wouldn't this be enough?
> >>
> >> s/^./\u&/
> >
> > ; echo abc def | sed 's/^.\u&/'
> > sed: s command garbled: s/^.\u&/
> >
>
>  i guess you missed the second slash
>

now it is less helpful:

; echo abc def | sed 's/^./\u&/'
uabc def

- erik



       reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<d1c554290910290929p3980a256hf075042ca3a3917b@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-29 16:31 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
     [not found] <<A3AADD7F-E09D-49F9-8A5B-3D6B720046A4@mac.com>
2009-10-30 16:16 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<80c99e790910290906t36766978kcd38c9583392e038@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-29 16:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-29 16:29   ` Iruata Souza
2009-10-29 15:41 Steve Simon
2009-10-29 16:06 ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-10-29 16:33   ` Iruata Souza
2009-10-29 16:42     ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-10-29 16:09 ` W B Hacker
2009-10-29 18:52 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-30 13:35 ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-30 13:39 ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-30 17:30   ` W B Hacker
2009-10-30 15:29 ` dave.l
2009-10-30 20:53 ` Noah Evans
2009-11-11 12:32 ` frankg

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