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01-14-2012

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It would be nice to know what context you are trying to do this in. As has been suggested, if you have a file of first and last names, just run a sed across the file. However, if you have a string, or two tokens, as a part of a loop in a programme, then the answer will be different. As an example, if you are working in ksh or bash this is much more efficient than running sed for each individual string:

Code:

full_name="Eric Clapton"
initials="${full_name//[a-z]/}"
echo "$full_name -> $initials"

If you need E.C. or E. C. you can do something like this:

Code:

echo "${initials/ /.}."
echo "${initials/ /. }."

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Again, if you're using a Ksh like shell language, then you could just echo out the first characters like this:

Code:

full_name="Eric Clapton"
last="${full_name#* }"
echo  "${full_name:0:1} ${last:0:1}"

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LIBGPHOTO2_PORT(3)					  The gPhoto2 Reference (the man					LIBGPHOTO2_PORT(3)

NAME

       libgphoto2_port - cross-platform port access library

SYNOPSIS

       #include <gphoto2/gphoto2_port.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The libgphoto2_port library was written to provide libgphoto2(3) with a generic way of accessing ports. In this function, libgphoto2_port
       is the successor of the libgpio library.

       Currently, libgphoto2_port supports serial (RS-232) and USB connections, the latter requiring libusb to be installed.

       The autogenerated API docs will be added here in the future.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       IOLIBS If set, defines the directory where the libgphoto2_port library looks for its I/O drivers (iolibs). You only need to set this on
	      OS/2 systems and broken/test installations.

       LD_DEBUG
	      Set this to all to receive lots of debug information regarding library loading on ld based systems.

       USB_DEBUG
	      If set, defines the numeric debug level with which the libusb library will print messages. In order to get some debug output, set it
	      to 1.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-------------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE^ATTRIBUTE VALUE |			     |
       +-------------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability^SUNWgnome-camera  |			     |
       +-------------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability^Volatile   |			     |
       |			       |			     |
       +-------------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libgphoto2(3), The gPhoto2 Manual, [1]gphoto website, automatically generated API docs, [2]libusb website

AUTHOR

       The gPhoto2 Team.
       Hans Ulrich Niedermann <gp@n-dimensional.de>. (man page)

REFERENCES

       1. gphoto website
	  http://www.gphoto.org/

       2. libusb website
	  http://libusb.sourceforge.net/

								    08/16/2006							LIBGPHOTO2_PORT(3)

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