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 > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null