On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:56:25AM +0000, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
In a more-stupid-than-normal moment I ended up with a Text Edit document on my Mac with lots of capital I's in the middle of words. I tried 'check spelling' to see if it did an entire run of spell- checking through the document, but there was no dialog box. Tried to go through it in NeoOffice, which I'm not that familiar with, but NeoOffice bombed. Can somebody less brain-dead than I appear to be today come up with a bash script to pour the text into that does 'replace I not on word boundary with i'? (The infuriating thing is, I used to *know* this stuff, or at least where to look it up, but because I've been Abjuring Hackish Unixy Things since I was in mental hospital this summer, I don't even know where to start...) Also 'replace 'fI ind' with 'I find', because the reason I was messing about with I's in the first place was there's a timing error with my Alphasmart Neo keyboard and it has a tendency to transpose letters.
Hmmm, wellllll, the first could probably be done with: sed -i.backup -s -e 's/\b([^I]+)I([^I]+)\b/\1i\2/;' filename
(That will *only* pick up capital I with one or more letters both sides of it)
The second is more tricky, assuming that "fI ind" isn't the only replacement that's required it makes it quite a lot harder, I'll have to ponder that one over breakfast.
Cheers,