For e.g I have a file named "relation" which has three coloums i.e

JOHN MARY JACK
PETE ALISIA JONNY
TONY JACKIE VICTOR

If I do
grep -w 'JOHN' relation | awk '{print""$1" is husband of "$2" & father of "$3""}'

It gives out
JOHN i husband of MARY & father of JACK (which is desired output for me)

I put this thing into script but it stops working. All I am doing is to change the input in Upper case & using grep, awk after that.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
name=$1
print "$name"
echo "$name" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' >$NAME
print "$NAME"
grep -w "$NAME" relation |awk '{print""$1" is husband of "$2" & father of "$3""}' >$out
print "$out"
exit 0

If I run it like ./scriptname john
it gives output
john
JOHN

Can anyone plz help me to fix it..

I had given an example.

This line is incorrect. Insted of assigning the result to the variable NAME, you are redirecting the output of the command to a file, whose name is stored in the variable NAME (which I presume is currently undefined).

echo "$name" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' >$NAME

name=$(echo "$name" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
# or this, but I prefer the previous syntax
name=`echo "$name" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`

nawk '{print toupper($1)" is husband of"toupper($2)" & father of "toupper($3)}' filename

Thanks for the reply but this thing won't work since I am converting lowercase to Uppercase so that the grep can work b'coz in the file everything is in uppercase. I m doing something wrong in grep statement not in awk one.

What does your code look like now?

Have you made the same change to the grep line as I recommended for the tr line?

Will try that when I go to office tommorow..Thanks for the help.

Thanks Annihilannic everything works now.