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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Initials of a name Post 302590150 by Aqualung71 on Saturday 14th of January 2012 10:55:13 AM
Old 01-14-2012
just delete all uncapitalised characters:

Code:
echo "Eric Cartman" | sed "s/[a-z]//g"

 

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