# **************************************************************

# ucwords -- Converts first letter of each word within a string

# into an uppercase all other to lowercase.

#

#     string ucwords( string string )

function ucwords() {

local string="$*"

for word in $string; do

    # Get the first character with cut and convert them into uppercase.

    local first="$( echo $word | cut -c1 | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' )"

    # Convert the rest of the word into lowercase and append them to the first character.

    word="$first$( echo $word | cut -c2-${#word} | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"

    # Put together the sentence.

    local phrase="$phrase $word"

done

echo "$phrase"

}