On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:11:52 +0200 (CEST) Julien Claassen <julien(a)c-lab.de> wrote: the simplest trick i know of uses tr: echo word | tr a-z A-Z the awk equivalent (?) is: echo word | gawk '{print toupper($0)}' Markus

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:47 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: 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.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Chris Cannam &lt;cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com&gt; wrote: I was forgetting there's also a function for this, you don't have to use the rather opaque substitution syntax: $ echo hello | perl -e 'print ucfirst <>' Chris

Julien Claassen: Oh my god :) This one is ugly too but, while we're at it, what the hell: echo "monday" | cut -b -3 | sed 's/\(^.\)/\U\1/' Wolfgang

Jens M Andreasen: ^. is the 1st char, put into () (protected with \) to store in \1 which gets uppercased with \U. Julien wanted monday -> Mon, it seems. That's what the cut does: take three bytes. We can loose the cut, too: echo monday | sed 's/\(^.\)\(..\).*/\u\1\L\2/' which matches 2 more characters and lowercases those with \L Wolfgang

2008/9/27 Wolfgang Woehl &lt;tito(a)rumford.de&gt;de>: python -c "d='monday'.capitalize(); print d[0:3]" ! :-)

Emanuel Rumpf: Instan methods, whoa. You win :) Can you get rid of d? Wolfgang

2008/9/27 Wolfgang Woehl &lt;tito(a)rumford.de&gt;de>: like this: ? python -c "print 'monday'[:3].capitalize()" with use of stdin: echo "monday" | python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.read().capitalize()[:3]"

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 01:11 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: I use the dreaded editor emacs everyday, thankyou - but more importantly I also use the language of C (where 'toupper' might have been a long lost good friend for solving the problem at hand) Solutions of simple problems, demanding several complex packages to be piped into one each other, does not take my fancy.

Scripting is for pansies, real hAxXoRs and with 0xDF.

Oh scripting is a very potent and powerful thing, if you know where to go and what to do. :-) Truly: Everything in its place. Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

Well, that dream was not mine but Dennis Ritchie's and Ken Thompson's... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens M Andreasen" &lt;jens.andreasen(a)comhem.se&gt; To: "victor" &lt;Victor.Lazzarini(a)nuim.ie&gt; Cc: &lt;linux-audio-dev(a)lists.linuxaudio.org&gt; Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [LAD] [ot] capitalising words in a shell-script

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 12:04 +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: Maybe I was a a bit too harsh? There certainly are times when all you care about is getting the job done quickly as well as correctly. A UNIX guru/sysadmin will often be confronted with unique questions like: - Where the f*** did I misplace that shit and how to incorporate it into our new database from <insert vendor>, which we are gonna live with for the foreseeable future ... The next time "shit happens", it will be a different situation, craving for yet another new approach. And it can most probably be solved once more by using standard tools. At home I have bits and pieces of audio related stuff that is not really working the way they were intended (yet.) They are all written as typical unix filters, the one piping into the next eventually arriving at either ALSA or OSS. This is for prototyping and evaluation of ideas. Real applications loops around similar ideas, but on a scale of every damned millisecond rather than the relaxed ALSA defualt of a second or so. This is where that other idea from K&R comes into play. Real unix systems comes with a C-compiler that will optimze and vectorize your scribblings into something that is actually useful. I haven't dared to open the link you provided, but given past experiences, by the time I realize that the world is going to the dogs, my friends hardly raises an eyebrow and only says: - "We told you so!"