To capitalize the first letter of each line wouldn't this be enough?

s/^./\u&/

L.


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> Sorry, not really the place for such questions but...
>
> I always struggle with sed, awk is easy but sed makes my head hurt.
>
> I am trying to capitalise the first tow words on each line (I could use awk
> as well but I have to use sed so it seems churlish to start another
> process).
>
> capitalising the first word on the line is easy enough:
>
>                        h
>                        s/^(.).*/\1/
>
>  y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/
>                        x
>                        s/^.(.*)/\1/
>                        x
>                        G
>                        s/\n//
>
> Though there maye be a much easier/more elegant way to do this,
> but for the 2nd word it gets much harder.
>
> What I really want is sam's ability to select a letter and operate on it
> rather than everything being line based as sed seems to be.
>
> any neat solutions? (extra points awarded for use of the branch operator
> :-)
>
> -Steve
>
>