Capitalise Only First Letter Of Each Word In A Sentence

onesikgypo · 02-13-2009, 09:11 PM

Hi,

ive searched around about this for a bit, but have been unable to find a working and suitable solution for me to do, what i require is to be able to change a string such as: thIs Is a TeSt to --> This Is A Test - AND place it in a variable - so far ive only succesfully been able to make the whole sentence uppercase or lowercase.

Im sure theres a simple solution, any help would be greatly appreciated

syg00 · 02-13-2009, 10:32 PM

I'd probably convert it to lowercase then cap (I'll leave you to assign it to a variable)

Code:

echo "this Is a TeSt" | sed -nr -e 's/.*/\L&/' -e 's/(^.|[[:space:]].)/\U&/gp'

bgeddy · 02-15-2009, 11:41 AM

Code:

MYVAR=$(echo "this Is a TeSt" | awk '{ for (x=1;x<=NF;x++) { printf("%s%s ",toupper(substr($x,1,1)),tolower(substr($x,2)))}}') 
echo MYVAR now is $MYVAR