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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What is wrong with tiny (g)awk line ?? Post 302606411 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 11th of March 2012 09:28:57 AM

03-11-2012

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I am guessing the back reference \\1 does not get passed to the toupper function inside the replacement part of gawk's gensub function:

Alternatively:

Code:

awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)$i=toupper(substr($i,1,1)) substr($i,2)}1'  infile

but that would squeeze spacing..

Or shortening the previous perl:

Code:

perl -pe 's/\b./\u$&/g' infile

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