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Re: filtering of text files



On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 08:22:40AM -0400, Ian Peters wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 12:12:37PM +0000, Richard Harran wrote:
> > I need to filter some text files to convert all the letters to the same
> > case, and to remove punctuation.  I guess I should use 'sed', but the
> > man page is disfunct, and I'm struggling with the info.  Could someone
> > give me a hint (particularly for the case change thing).
> 
> cat filename | tr '[:lower:][:punct:]' '[:upper:]' > filename2

My fault, this is broken.  Too early in the morning.

cat filename | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] | tr -d [:punct:]

-d for delete

man tr

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Ian Peters		"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
itp@gnu.org					-- Mark Twain


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