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Heading translation in sed

  • This still has some problems

  • If the last two lines of the input are a heading, they get eaten

  • Why?

        /^\(.\)\1\1*$/ { x; 
                         y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/;
                                      x; d;
                       }
  • This uppercases the hold space

    • but d skips the print and starts prcessing the next line of input

        $ { p;x; }
  • So the special last-line behavior is skipped

  • I tried hard to fix this, but I'm not clever enough


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