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Bash script to titlecase chapter titles in UPPERCASE
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for filename in chapter-*.xhtml; do | |
new12=$(sed -n '12p' "$filename" | cut -b 8- | se titlecase -n) | |
sed -i -e '12s#^\(.*<p>\).*#'"\1$new12"'#g' "$filename" | |
## Uncomment next line to echo new title line to terminal for checking | |
# sed -n '12p' "$filename" | |
done |
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COMMENTARY - This assumes:
<p>...</p>
delimiters<?>
tag;h3
would begin at9-
)sed
regex (tested on Ubuntu); might need adjusting for MacOSTest data can conveniently be found in this Github repo/commit (ZIP can be downloaded; contains 75 chapters with uppercase titles).
For "post semantics", then this variation "works": it identifiles the line with the
epub:type="title"
semantic, and does the titlecase replacement on that line: