Coverting lower case to upper case in a script?

[Scott Dunkley]

I am trying to covert user input from lower/mixed case to upper case in a script and write it back to a variable. i am doing :

print -n 'what is your name: '
read NAME
awk -v NAME=$NAME '
{
toupper(NAME)
}'
echo $NAME

[Rainer von Bongartz]

so what is your question ????

Regards
rainer

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Scott,

Why not

[root]pbctst: echo "This is a Test"|tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"
THIS IS A TEST


[root]pbctst: BNAME="this is a Test"
[root]pbctst: echo $BNAME
this is a Test
[root]pbctst: BNAME=`echo $BNAME|tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"`
[root]pbctst: echo $BNAME
THIS IS A TEST
[root]pbctst:


live free or die
harry

[harry d brown jr]

Scott,

So for your example:

print -n 'what is your name: '
read NAME
NAME=`echo $NAME|tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"`

will upcase your variable NAME


live free or die
harry

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Scott:

# UPPER=`echo "This Is In Mixed Case"|awk '{print toupper($0)}'`

# UPPER=`echo "This also"|tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`

Regards!

...JRF...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

l1:/u/usr/merijn 108 > perl -e 'print "What is your name? ";$n=uc scalar ;print "Your name is: $n"'
What is your name? Wubbo Ockels
Your name is: WUBBO OCKELS
l1:/u/usr/merijn 109 >

[Scott Dunkley]

Thanks, all work really well, went for the basic idea in the end of using:

typset -u NAME
print -n 'name: '
read NAME
echo $NAME