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# 15  
Old 06-11-2006
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Originally Posted by Vikas Sood
Well

Not everybody is comfortable with awk or nawk..Anyways, just wanted to give an alternative (may be not simpler for awk/nawk gurus) way to accomplish the task.

Did not hurt anyone, did it?
there's not better time than now to get better.........
# 16  
Old 06-12-2006
Here's an arcane way of doing it with vi and process substitution (if you want to capitalise the usernames of logged on users, for example)....

Code:
vi +'1,$s/^./\U&/gp|q!' <(who | awk '{print $1}') | egrep -v 'changed|regular'

Edit: you can use ex too... for example on the /etc/passwd file itself, to capitalise the first character of each line....

Code:
( echo '1,$s/^./\U&/g'; echo '1,$p'; echo 'q!' ) | ex -s /etc/passwd

Cheers
ZB
Last edited by zazzybob; 06-12-2006 at 10:11 AM..
# 17  
Old 06-13-2006
Code:
newlisp -e '(silent)
(while(setq s(read-line))
  (println(title-case(first(parse s)))))' <file
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