First letter of each Word from a line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello All,

I am new to UNIX, how do i get the First letter of each Word from a line in shell scripting.

For Example
line = "The Jack In The Box"

I want to reterive The letters T for The, J from Jack, I from In, T from The and B from Box.

and store in another string.

Can anyone please help out.

Thanks in Advance

Rahul

2

is this homework? if so, plz read the rules!

3

No this is not a homework, i was wondering how to do this.

Thanks

Rahul

4

one way

echo "jack in the box" | tr -s ' '  '\n' | cut -c 1
5

Thanks Jack for the snippet.

Regards

Rahul

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line="The Jack In The Box"
firstletters=$( set -f; printf "%c " $line )

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