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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:57:58+00:00

I have the following string: this and this and this and this and this

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I have the following string:

this and this and this and this and this and this

and I want to uppercase the 3rd to the 5th occurrence of the token this:

this and this and THIS and THIS and THIS and this

The string does not contain newlines.

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  1. Editorial Team

    just echo patten 3 times:(same as SiegeX‘s solution)

    $ echo "this and this and this and this and this and this" | sed "/this/{`echo 's//\U&/3;'{,,}`}"
this and this and THIS and THIS and THIS and this
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