TECH SOLUTIONS

Lets take an example file as follows:

$ cat file

capiltalize first letter of every word of a line

using shell script

If you want to capitalize first letter of every word of all lines, it can be done as follows:

$ sed -i -e 's/^./\U&/g; s/ ./\U&/g' file

$ cat file

Capiltalize First Letter Of Every Word Of A Line

Using Shell Script

^. - represents  character that follows beginning of a line i.e. first character of the line

  .(space and dot) - represents every character that follows space

U - represents uppercase ( L can be used for lowercase if needed)

If you want line to perform this operation on selective lines , you can provide line number as follows:

$ sed -i -e '1,3 s/^./\U&/g; s/ ./\U&/g' file

Now, this operation will be performed on first three lines

Thanks Sourav.

New Case Below:

Source="ONE TWO THREE FOUR"

Target="One Two Three Four"

Solution is below:

Target=`echo $Source | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | sed -e 's/^./\U&/g; s/ ./\U&/g'`

echo $Target

One Two Three Four

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To capitalize all the letters of 1st line

sed -i -e '1 s/.*/\U&/g;' file