Hi,

I want to convert the first letter of this word from lowecase to uppercase.

Assume a letter united. I want to translate to United

Please let me know a simple way to do that.

Thanks.

echo united | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))""substr($0,2)}'

Hi Shamrock,

Thanks for the reply. But this is not working.

agamemnon:/home/x033870>echo `hostname` | awk '{print toupper(substr($0,1,1))""substr($0,2)}'
agamemnon

echo `hostname` | awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=""}{$1=toupper($1);print}'

In HP UX it is converting everything

genova$ /Application/psoftlnk/hr83:echo `hostname` | awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=""}{$1=to
upper($1);print}'
GENOVA

In SUn OS nothing changed..its all lowercase...

i want only the first letter

Sort of cheating since it requires perl installed:

$ echo united | perl -pe 's/^(\w)/\u$1/'
United

Personally i feel that sed should be given a chance then we should think about awk and perl(perl commands are more or less same like sed)

echo united | sed 's/^./\U/g'


i hope this would work

Best Regards,
Rakesh Uv