04-20-2010
Trying to capitalize first letter of every word in Variable
Total Bash noob, have been successful in doing my script by searching and looking at examples, but I need some assitance with this one, just can't figure it out.
In the Bash script I am trying to capitalize the first letter of every word in a string, ideally not changing other capitalization.
An example:
StartingVariable="NZ is the code for New Zealand"
NewVariable="NZ Is The Code For New Zealand"
If the only choice is title case then I'll go that route which would result NZ becoming Nz. Ultimately I can't figure out how to do either.
I did find a similar discussion here:
[SOLVED] 'tr' command working in console but not in bash script - Ubuntu Forums
And while it did echo the Title Case to the terminal, I couldn't figure out how to set a variable to that output.
I would really appreciate some help with this.
Thanks.
Randy
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