I am new to unix shell scripting.
I was trying to convert each lines in a file to upper case.
I know how to convert the whole file.
But here i have to do line by line.

I am getting it in the below mentioned script

#!/bin/bash
#converting lower to upper in a file

#tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" <file1
FILE="jptest"
while read myline
do
orig=$myline
# new=`echo $myline | tr [a-t] [A-T]`
echo "$myline" |tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
echo "Moving $orig --> $new"
done <jptest

This is giving me the correct answer.
But i want to take the output in a variable 'new'
I dont know how to do that..
Can you pl. help me out in this.

Look up backticks in your courseware hand-out.

You already have that, but it's commented out.

Thats not working. is there nay syntax errors in that.
I am not getting the answer in $new

Yes, but you have the correct syntax elsewhere, so copy/paste whatever works to inside the backticks and you should be all set.