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Old 11-02-2005
Changing capitalization
How would I go about taking a string, such as a name (first last) and changing the capitalization of the first letter of each name (First Last)?

A script that I am using outputs a list of names in all lower case, and I need to process the whole list to a new outfile giving the new capitalization.

Thanks!!
# 2  
Old 11-02-2005
Code:
ruby -pe 'gsub(/\w+/){|name| name.capitalize}'

# 3  
Old 11-09-2005
Code:
echo 'joe shmoe' | nawk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)sub(/./,toupper(substr($i,1,1)),$i)}1'

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