G'day David,

You can use various features of Perl to write that very succinctly:

$ perl -E 'say "Name: @{[map ucfirst, split]}" while <>'
billy bob allen
Name: Billy Bob Allen
abc pqr wxyz
Name: Abc Pqr Wxyz
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Features (some of which you probably already know about):

• $_: used in various places here; the first is the line read by while.
• split: defaults to splitting $_ on whitespace (it's a little more involved than that — see doco link for full details).
• ucfirst: defaults to operating on $_.
• Baby cart: that's the @{[...]} part — interpolates a list within a string.
• $": list separator — defaults to space separation.
• say: print plus newline; requires 5.10 or later.

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