First Letter in a String to be capitalized

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Is there a way to cnvert first letter alone in a string to upper case.

For eg: diamond should be converted to Diamond.
Thanks in Advance,
Kinny

2

using Perl:

print ucfirst("diamond");

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

3

using perl one liner

perl  -e "print ucfirst('diamond');"
4

how's this....!

echo 'kinny' | sed -e 's/^\(.\)/\U\1/'

5

or,

/home1->echo 'diamond' | awk '{sub(".",substr(toupper($0),1,1));print}'
Diamond
/home1->
6

bash and tr :

s="diamond"
echo $(echo ${s:0:1} | tr [a-z] [A-Z])${s:1}
7

using perl

echo "diamonds" | perl -wlne 'print "\u$_";'

o/p:-
Diamonds