Converting to Uppercase

dreams5617 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-11-2004

I want to convert string into uppercase string. How can i do that ? Ex: Enter the user name:
read name
show=upper(name)
echo $show --- This output should be the uppercase output.

Thanks

bhargav · #2 (**permalink**) 11-11-2004

Following may help u :

echo "hello" | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"

bhargav · #3 (**permalink**) 11-11-2004

an alternative using 'awk'

echo "hello" | awk '{ print toupper($1) }'

Ygor · #4 (**permalink**) 11-12-2004

Using ksh...

read name
typeset -u show=$name
echo $show

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