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oh and incidentally, the tr form that i was using seems to work on first inspection in my cygwin build, go figure :P

hey, well i didn't expect my post to ellicit this much discussion i was just tearing my hair out because i thought that my command:



should have been converting all of the lowercase chars to . ...

thanks for that mate, that was giving me retard attacks :)

hey,

i want to use tr to remove all the lowercase characters from a string and replace them with a '.', i can't seem to get it to work, heres an example of what im trying, someone please correct...

thanks dude, another incredibly simple answer that i overlooked :)

hey,

im looking for a way of extending a string in shell script.
for example i have two strings "." and "abcd",
i need to extend the first string so that it is the same length as the second. ...

hehe yeh thanks i got it now :)

OMG I KNEW there was a painfully simple way of doing what i wanted!! You have no idea the pain that has caused me, about 3 solid hours trying all sorts of kludges to get it to go. :mad: :mad: ...

hey,

Im just wondering is there away to get sed to read from a variable
eg


it doesn't seem to work, i really need to be able to recursively change the same data set...

hey this is my first post here and i am desperately looking for some help! Im trying to write a shell script for the first time and ive run into some issues.

Im writing a script that takes two...