[ale] sed head scratcher

[Richard Bronosky]

That's pretty good. However, you are possibly altering the field
separator (replacing spaces with tabs) and certainly loosing any
fields greater than 3. This version changes field 2 and only field 2.

cat /etc/hosts | awk '{$2=tolower($2); print}'

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Al Snow<jasnow at hotmail.com> wrote:
> cat /etc/hosts | awk '{ print $1, tolower($2), $3 }'