i trying make sed script make first letter of each
molly w. bolt 334-78-5443 walter q. bugg 984-49-0032 noah p. way 887-12-0921
so want this:
molly w. bolt 334-78-5443 walter q. bugg 984-49-0032 noah p. way 887-12-0921
so far have following script, capitalize first 2 words comes across ie. making molly w. bolt. can't figure out how modify script last name uppercase. need add?
h s/\(.\).*/\1/ y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ g s/\(.\)\n\(.\)\(.*\)/\1\3/ / [a-z]/{ h s/\([a-z][a-z]* \)\([a-z]\).*/\2/ y/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ g s/\(.\)\n\([a-z][a-z]* \)\(.\)\(.*\)/\2\1\4/ }
this gnu sed 1 liner may you:
sed 's/\b./\u&/g' file
test data:
kent$ cat f molly w. bolt 334-78-5443 walter q. bugg 984-49-0032 noah p. way 887-12-0921 kent$ sed 's/\b./\u&/g' f molly w. bolt 334-78-5443 walter q. bugg 984-49-0032 noah p. way 887-12-0921
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