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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert text between exact matching patterns to Title case Post 302966372 by martinsmith on Thursday 11th of February 2016 10:52:30 AM
Old 02-11-2016
Thank you Aia and R.Singh.

Both solutions work great but i ran into a small issue. It seems to replace only the first occurrence and ignores the others.

I tried the following sample code with tokyo city, london and new york which i needed in Title Case.

Code:
title=">PATTERN1 tokyo city PATTERN2 whatever whatever title=">PATTERN1 london PATTERN2 whatever whatever title=">PATTERN1 new york PATTERN2 whatever whatever ....

I only got Tokyo City in Title case
Code:
title=">PATTERN1 Tokyo City PATTERN2 whatever whatever title=">PATTERN1 london PATTERN2 whatever whatever title=">PATTERN1 new york PATTERN2 whatever whatever ....

I was hoping to get every single occurrence between those patterns in Title case like: Tokyo City, London and New York
Code:
title=">PATTERN1 Tokyo City PATTERN2 whatever whatever title=">PATTERN1 London PATTERN2 whatever whatever title=">PATTERN1 New York PATTERN2 whatever whatever ....

Any ideas ? Thank you for your time.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

pnmindex

pnmindex(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  pnmindex(1)

NAME

       pnmindex - build a visual index of a bunch of anymaps

SYNOPSIS

       pnmindex [-size N] [-across N] [-colors N] [-black] [-title T] [-quant|-noquant] pnmfile ...

DESCRIPTION

       pnmindex creates an index image containing thumbnail (small) versions of a bunch of PNM files you supply.

       pnmindex labels each thumbnail and, optionally, contains a title.

OPTIONS

       -size N
              The  size  of  each  thumbnail.   The  image  is scaled to fit maximally inside a N x N pixel box without changing its aspect ratio.
              Default is 100.

       -across N
              The number of thumbnails in each row.  Default is 6.

       -colors N
              The maximum number of colors allowed in the overall image.  If it would otherwise have more colors than  these,  pnmindex  quantizes
              the result.  The default is 256.

              However, this value is meaningless if you specify the -noquant option.

       -black This  controls  the  color  of the padding between the images; normally it's white and the labels are black lettering on white back-
              ground, but the -black flag reverses this.

       -title title
              Specifies a title top place at the top of the image.  Default is no title.

       -quant Enables quanization (to the number of colors specified by -colors ).  Quantization is on by default but  you  can  disable  it  with
              -noquant.

       -noquant
              See -quant.

SEE ALSO

       pnmscale(1), pnmcat(1), pbmtext(1), ppmquant(1), pnm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.  -title and -noquant added 2000 by John Heidemann.

                                                                  9 January 1991                                                       pnmindex(1)
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