Uppercase a Bash input variable

[Jeremy Fowler]

Well, I didn't mean for this to go twice. I had thought my original one got lost
since I sent it before I sent the big bang posts - way before.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jeremy Fowler
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:02 PM
> To: Kclug at Kclug. Org
> Subject: FW: Uppercase a Bash input variable
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> um... There is no such thing as lower case numbers.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of James Sissel
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:19 PM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: Uppercase a Bash input variable
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> > Using RedHat 7.3 and Bash 2.05a I can write the following script.
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> > echo -n "Please enter a date (DD-MON-YYYY): "
> > read indate
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> > How can I make sure indate is in uppercase?
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> > Thanks.
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