On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:47 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > Hi Julien, > > People usually use tr for that: > > $ echo foo | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' > FOO i believe he meant capitalize as in "foo" -> "Foo" which is an order of magnitude harder. i don't believe that sed can do it. perl probably can.