um... There is no such thing as lower case numbers. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of James Sissel
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:19 PM
> To: kclug@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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