Unix Shell - Re: convert 1st char of a word to uppercase

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Re: convert 1st char of a word to uppercase

John W. Krahn

2005-04-25, 5:53 pm

Michael Heiming wrote:
> In comp.unix.shell Hans Horn <hannes@2horns.com>:
>
>
> Nice thread.
>
> If you have vim you could try:
> :%s/\<$.$$[^ ]*$/\u\1\L\2/g
>
> PERL might kick in handy:
> PERL -pi -e 's/([a-z]+)/\u\L$1/g' file

That won't work properly. For example it will convert 'Word' to 'WOrd' and
'utökad' to 'UtöKad' and "couldn't" to "Couldn'T". This should work better.

perl -Mlocale -pi
-e's/(?<![[:alpha:]])([[:alpha:]]+(?:['''-][[:alpha:]]+)?)(?![[:alpha:]])/\u\L\$1/g'
file

:-)

John
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