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Old 05-23-2007
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A more general version for one or more words on a line:

Code:
awk '{ for ( i=1; i <= NF; i++) 
           {   sub(".", substr(toupper($i),1,1) , $i)  }  
            print }' file
use nawk/gawk/mawk as appropriate if awk doesn't work