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Old 03-01-2011
replace between tags
Hello,

how can i do,

this:

Code:
<h1> linux </h1>

to

Code:
<h1> LINUX </h1>

it must be capitalized but how can i do that with SED???

thanks for help
Last edited by joeyg; 03-01-2011 at 11:43 AM.. Reason: Please use CodeTags around input/output & commands
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Old 03-01-2011
Perhaps you need to show a bigger example of your input data?
Code:
$ echo "<h1> linux </h1>"
<h1> linux </h1>

$ echo "<h1> linux </h1>" | sed "s/linux/Linux/"
<h1> Linux </h1>

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Old 03-01-2011
Why sed?

Code:
$> echo "<h1> linux </h1>"| awk '{$2=toupper($2); print}'
<h1> LINUX </h1>

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Old 03-01-2011
Do you need all letters uppercase or just the first one? If you can settle for just the first one, this will work:
Code:
sed 's/<h1> \(.*\) <\/h1>/\u\1/'

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Old 03-01-2011
May require GNU sed (if wanting to use \u switch)
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Old 03-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by glev2005
Do you need all letters uppercase or just the first one? If you can settle for just the first one, this will work:
Code:
sed 's/<h1> \(.*\) <\/h1>/\u\1/'

Hello,

thanks for the help, but all letters must be uppercased.
# 7  
Old 03-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by glev2005
Do you need all letters uppercase or just the first one? If you can settle for just the first one, this will work:
Code:
sed 's/<h1> \(.*\) <\/h1>/\u\1/'

So very nearly Smilie try the following:
Code:
echo '<h1> linux </h1>' | sed 's/\(<h1>\) *\([a-z]*\) \(<\/h1>\)/\1 \U\2\E \3/'

The \U uppercases the remaining text until it encounters a \L (lowercase remaining text) or \E end marker.
For more info on available modifiers in the substitution command in sed take a look at the info page for the s command in sed(way more informative than the man page).
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