[K12OSN] winbind/gdm issues

[Huck]

could you break down the expression so I can modify for other uses as well?

both the  

:%s/.*/\L&/g

and 

1G!Gtr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

lines??? I'm sure there are 101 uses for this knowledge!
thanks!
--Huck


Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:31, Huck wrote:
>  
>
>>I created all of my usernames in lowercase to avoid the case sensativity 
>>issue...
>>used *ducks* MS-Word to lowercase my entire text document with all my 
>>username Huckaby, David into huckaby david
>>for instance...(used it to remove the tabs and commas too, find and 
>>replace is your friend)
>>    
>>
>
>Time to learn some vi:
>:%s/.*/\L&/g
>will lowercase the whole document.
>
>Or, if you prefer the old-school filter approach used before
>vim got all the fancy special-case regexp operations:
>1G!Gtr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
>(that pipes your buffer through the external tr program
>and replaces it with the results so you aren't limited
>to built-in editor operations).  If you don't like the
>results, u will undo it.
>
>---
>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
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