Changing capitalization - Shell Programming and Scripting

TheCrunge · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2005

How would I go about taking a string, such as a name (first last) and changing the capitalization of the first letter of each name (First Last)?

A script that I am using outputs a list of names in all lower case, and I need to process the whole list to a new outfile giving the new capitalization.

Thanks!!

futurelet · #2 (**permalink**) 11-02-2005

Code:

ruby -pe 'gsub(/\w+/){|name| name.capitalize}'

vgersh99 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-09-2005

Code:

echo 'joe shmoe' | nawk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)sub(/./,toupper(substr($i,1,1)),$i)}1'

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