Hi Bjoern, > I don't know much about sed but > > sed 'y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/' > > works for english text. I'm not sure why not y/[a-z]/[A-Z]/ works.
It doesn't work because `y/source/dest/' doesn't take patterns. `source' and `dest' neither are patterns nor regular expressions, it simply are pools of characters. The search pattern is ".*" by default. The characters that appear both in the matched input and in `source' are transliterated to the corresponding characters in `dest'. `y/[a-z]/[A-Z]/' would change all a`s into A's and all z`s into Z`s, but nothing else. It's a strange command; I really can't imagine much rational use cases for it. Matthias _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
