Re: filtering of text files

[Richard Harran <95rmwh@eng.cam.ac.uk>]

Also thanks to all those who suggested this or awk, or ways to use sed:
Ian, Marc and Stephan.  (I posted before reading, always daft).

Thanks again
Rich

Richard Harran wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'm replying to my own post.  I found I could do what I wanted with
> 'tr', which has a usable man page.
> 
> Cheers
> Rich
> 
> 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).
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rich
> >
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