Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Gurus!!

Is it possible to change a letter in a word to CAPS??
When correcting a paragraph i need to covert the word if it appears at the start of a line to caps.......

if i had a phrase like

my name is james and would like to sign up.

how do i convert "my" to "My"

or

the Essex batsman and former hamp captain, has been named as assistant

is it possible to convert "the" to "The"

readup unix man pages for tr

Thanks did some reading but....

i have the word as "my" but failing to specify and check if its at the begining of line and to select just the first character


my name is james and would like to sign up..............

tr "m" "M" < filesource

this is when you know the first letter how do i specify if i dont know the first character?

i have also tried something of this sort

echo $word | sed -e 's/\(.\)\(.*\)/\[:upper:]\1\(.\)/I'

but to no avail

This is no help, but tr won't do it. In your example, tr "m" "M" will convert EVERY occurance of a lowercase 'm' to uppercase 'M'.

I.E. Your sample will yield:

My naMe is jaMes and would like to sign up.

tr [a-z] [A-Z] is a handy tool to convert to all caps. But that won't help you convert just the first character.