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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Change text color from echo command? Post 303016953 by RudiC on Monday 7th of May 2018 04:50:47 AM
Old 05-07-2018
For the desired capitalisation, with your (presumedly recent) bash shell you could use "Parameter Expansion / Case Modification":
Code:
ARG1=default
printf "%s\n" ${ARG1^^}
DEFAULT

 

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4DIGITS(6)							 The 4digits game							4DIGITS(6)

NAME
4digits - Guess-the-number Puzzle Game SYNOPSIS
4digits 4digits-text [OPTION] ... DESCRIPTION
4digits is a guess-the-number puzzle game. It's called Bulls and Cows, and in China people simply call it Guess-the-Number. The game's objective is to guess a four-digit number in 8 times using as less time as possible. It is similar to Mastermind, but the four digits are different to each other. 4digits has both graphical user interface version and text user interface version. 4digits launches the graphical version, and 4digits-text launches the text version. OPTIONS
These options only apply to the text interface. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Yongzhi Pan. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at <https://github.com/fossilet/4digits/issues>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2012 Yongzhi Pan. This is Free Software; this software is licensed under the GPL version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. There is NO war- ranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation of this game is in HTML format shipped with the game. 4digits 1.1.2 May 2012 4DIGITS(6)
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