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

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Re: convert 1st char of a word to uppercase

Michael Heiming

2005-04-26, 2:49 am

In comp.unix.shell Ed Morton <morton@lsupcaemnt.com>:

> Michael Heiming wrote:

> <snip>
[vbcol=seagreen]
> I'd just loop through the fields:

> awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)sub(/./,toupper(substr($i,1,1)),$i)}1'

> It changes white-space but there's ways round that if it's a problem....

Yep, this should work, but the line is getting longer and longer
in addition to just another formating problem. Looks like using
vim ':%s/\<$.$$[^ ]*$/\u\1\L\2/g' would be the shortest
possible way so far.;)

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