changing case but only the first character

[billbose]

hi,

How to change the first character of a record to upper case.

TIA.

Bill

 

[grega]

Haven't time to figure this out at the moment, but the command

tr -s &quot;[:lower:]&quot; &quot;[:upper:]&quot; < input_file_name

will convert lower to upper for the specified input. I'm guessing you could use cut to isolate the 1st char from the rest, convert it, and then join the line back together again.

Greg.

 

[gregor weertman]

You dit not say how many fields per line you have.
With this script is does not matter.


awk '{
for( ii = 1; ii <= NF; ii++)
printf( &quot;%s%s &quot;, toupper( substr( $ii, 1, 1)), substr( $ii, 2))
print &quot;&quot;
}' filetoconvert

succes Bill Gregor.Weertman@mailcity.com

 

[billbose]

Thank u greg and gregor.

BTW, The second awk script however works only with nawk in solaris 2.7. Thank you gregor for this script. It worked well.

Bill