Uppercase a Bash input variable

[Parker, Ron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sissel [mailto:James.Sissel at labone.com]

> echo -n "Please enter a date (DD-MON-YYYY): "
> read indate

> How can I make sure indate is in uppercase?

I'm sure there is a better answer, but something like
	indate="`echo $indate|tr [a-z] [A-Z]`"
should work