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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