Thank you Jim!

I adapted it to $date | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' and it worked - my apologies.

I did try to find the answers, but I see that the phrases I searched on were bad because I couldn't seem to find the threads you referred to. That seems to be a big challenge to finding answers anywhere - getting the lingo right.

I'm trying to figure out how people would search on something like that - "Changing shell variables to uppercase" or something?

The more useful question would probably be: Any advice on good searching methods?

Thanks again, Jim, in advance