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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Shell script to convert words to Title case Post 302904984 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 8th of June 2014 11:19:16 PM
Old 06-09-2014
You are welcome.

If we are picky, slightly better still would be (using GNU sed):
Code:
sed 's/\<./X\u&/g' file

Since \b means any word boundary and \< means only word boundaries at the beginning of a word, although both should work since there are no uppercase spaces or punctuation characters..
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