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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with copying files using shell script Post 302755299 by Yoda on Saturday 12th of January 2013 12:51:39 PM
Old 01-12-2013
I see your code is good except you are missing a fi
Code:
for file in "$@"
do
  if [ -f $file ]
  then
    ufile=`echo $file | sed -e 's/^./\U&/'`
    cp -v $file $ufile
  fi
done

BTW if you want to copy files to other directories you can append absolute path of destination directory as suffix to variable $ufile.

If you do not have GNU sed then try using awk instead:
Code:
echo $file | awk '{sub(/./, toupper(substr($0,1,1)));}1'

For any issues set xtrace and verbose and post the results:
Code:
/bin/ksh -xv

 

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