On 21 Aug 2006 23:33:58 -0700, aarcee wrote:
> Hello all ,
>
> I need to display a word with the first character in CAPS .
>
> that is , split then the display should be Split
[...]


With zsh:

word=foo
Word=${(C)word}

(will captitalise every word in $word (turns " foo bar" into
" Foo Bar").

With other shells:

Word=$(
awk '
BEGIN {
print toupper(substr(ARGV[1], 1, 1)) \
tolower(substr(ARGV[1], 2))
exit
}' "$word"
)

Captitalises only the first character in $word.

--
Stephane