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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:31:41 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sed question (OT)
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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