Shell Programming and Scripting

t_names1=`echo \\'emp\\',\\'dept\\' | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"`
echo $t_names1

#!/bin/sh

echo "Enter tables..."
# separate tables by space
read tab

for term in $tab
do
  quotetab="$quotetab '$term'"
done

echo "$quotetab" | tr ' ' ',' | sed 's/,//' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'

exit 0

$ ./testscript
Enter tables...
my list of tables
'MY','LIST','OF','TABLES'
$

t_names_1=`echo "emp,dept"|awk -v q="\'" 'BEGIN{FS=","} {printf("%s%s%s,%s%s%s",q,toupper($1),q,q,toupper($2),q) }' `
echo "$t_names_1"

read input

output=`echo ${input} | sed -e "s/^/\'/g" -e "s/$/\'/g" -e "s/,/\',\'/g" | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`