Moving characters to the end of line (EOL) with SED

Question

Any time the word “The” appears at the beginning of a line, I want to move it to the end of the line and capitalize the new first word in the line. For example, “The heaven” becomes “Heaven the”. I'm trying to test this out for my Library.

Answer 1

This should work:

sed 's/^The \(.*\)/\u\1 the/'

Answer 2

In case your sed doesn't have \u:

awk '$1 ~ "^The" {the=tolower($1); $1=""; char=toupper(substr($0,2,1)); rest=substr($0,3); print char rest, the}' inputfile

Assigning a null to $ leaves the field separator (a space) in place. The first substr() starts at character 2 to skip that space. The comma near the end prints the OFS (output field separator which defaults to a space).