(Solved) How to capitalize all first characters of text?

[ITSMERSH]

Hi.

In May 2015 I was in the need to have a function to capitalize first letter of file name.

Now I have the need to capitalize all first characters of all words in a text file or at least for per one line of text.

How to achieve?

Thanks

[fredx181]

I think here you find :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/153 ... -using-sed

The sed examples capitalize first char even if there's a - or a . between the words.
The awk example does not (may be more what you're looking for)

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# echo "my word" | sed -e "s/\b\(.\)/\u\1/g"
My Word
# echo "my-word" | sed -e "s/\b\(.\)/\u\1/g"
My-Word
# echo "my word" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){ $i=toupper(substr($i,1,1)) substr($i,2) }}1'
My Word
# echo "my-word" | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){ $i=toupper(substr($i,1,1)) substr($i,2) }}1'
My-word

Fred

[musher0]

Hello Rainer.

Here are a couple of ways of doing it in bash:
1) https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... ing-268182

2)

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read -ra words <<< "<sentence>" && echo "${words[@]^}"

Source

A search on ask.com (or any serious search engine) will give you even
more solutions, e.g.:
https://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=1&o=0&l=di ... archTopBox

IHTH.

[MochiMoppel]

Many ways to do this. Basically something similar to the sed example I proposed in 20015 should do it.

If file.txt contains

• these are my-words
  in 2 lines of text

then

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sed -r "s/^.|[ 	]./\U&/g" file.txt

should produce

• These Are My-words
  In 2 Lines Of Text

Note that the [] brackets contain a space and a tab.
The sed expression turns the first character at line start (^.) or (|) any character (.) following a space or a tab ([ ]) into uppercase.
If for example you also need to change the capitalization of words that immediately follow a colon, you could add a colon to the characters in the [] brackets.

[ITSMERSH]

@all

That's a lot more solutions than I'd expected.

And all of them much shorter than my own hack.

Cool, thanks!

[zagreb999]

wps office writer can do that!

[jafadmin]

Many ways to do this. Basically something similar to the sed example I proposed in 20015 should do it. ...

Time traveler detected! So cool, man. So very cool ..

[MochiMoppel]

[musher0]

I think that jafadmin is saying -- in poetic terms -- that there has been
a solution to this problem for a long time?

[fabrice_035]

[ITSMERSH]

[musher0]

MochiMoppei is way ahead of us, everybody should know that!

[MochiMoppel]

removed

[puppy_apprentice]

MochiMoppei is way ahead of us, everybody should know that!

You should wrote in more like haiku (Mochi is from Japan) style:

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MochiMoppei
everybody should know that!
is way ahead of us

More haiku:

http://www.haiku.art.pl/

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Aki mohaya
sono higurashi no
inochi ka na