On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a list of company names all in upper case; one per line. Can I use > a combination of sed, tr, and other tools to automate converting them all to > mixed case (i.e., initial letter uppercase, all others lower case)? There > must be a shell script already written to do this, but not in the reference > books I have.
Rich, I see else where in this thread that you have your solution but let me propose another way to arrive at a solution. You can use emacs to interactively record a macro for this purpose. In fact, since I prefer programming by demonstration for these sorts of tasks I usually use emacs and teach it what to do. Open the file in question. Then type C-x C-(, this will begin recording a macro. Then hit C-a for beginning of line, M-c, or M-x capitalize-word, then hit C-n for the next line. Now type C-x C-) to end the macro. You can now repeat this macro with C-u N C-x C-e, where N is the number of times you want to execute the macro. Or just C-x C-e if you want to run the macro once. After you memorize the basic dance of creating a line by line macro the only hard part is figuring out what commands to do in the middle, M-x capitalize-word in this case. But, the nice part is you get a fairly general formula for text manipulation that takes just a few minutes to apply -- and you don't have to learn a programming language if you don't want to. I hope you find this useful in the future. Jason _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
