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 <st...@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 > >
