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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change first letter of a word from lower case to upper case Post 302865885 by georgi58 on Sunday 20th of October 2013 10:22:22 AM
Old 10-20-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Akshay Hegde
Try

Sed

for each word

Code:
$ echo foo test | sed 's/\([a-z]\)\([a-zA-Z0-9]*\)/\u\1\2/g'

Foo Test

Awk

Code:
$ echo foo test  | awk '{$1=toupper(substr($1,0,1))substr($1,2)}1'
Foo test

the first command changes every word in the text

second command change every first word in the paragraph but not after the specified punctuation
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

toupper

TOUPPER(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						TOUPPER(3)

NAME

     toupper -- lower case to upper case letter conversion

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <ctype.h>

     int
     toupper(int c);

DESCRIPTION

     The toupper() function converts a lower-case letter to the corresponding upper-case letter.

RETURN VALUES

     If the argument is a lower-case letter, the toupper() function returns the corresponding upper-case letter if there is one; otherwise the
     argument is returned unchanged.

SEE ALSO

     ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3),
     isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), ascii(7)

STANDARDS

     The toupper() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'').

CAVEATS

     The argument to toupper() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.	See the CAVEATS section of
     ctype(3) for more details.

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