Capitalize a variable in a shell script

Capitalize a variable in a shell script

[Diego Alencar Alves de Lima]

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How can I capitalize an existing variable in a shell script? Currently 
$variable is www.domain.com, and I need to create a $variable1 that contains 
WWW.DOMAIN.COM (I am currently using bash as shell)

Thanks a lot
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Diego Lima
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Re: Capitalize a variable in a shell script

[Franklin Chua]

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Hello,

Try this...

variable2=`echo $variable1 | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`

Cheers,
Frank

Diego Alencar Alves de Lima wrote:
> How can I capitalize an existing variable in a shell script? Currently 
> $variable is www.domain.com, and I need to create a $variable1 that contains 
> WWW.DOMAIN.COM (I am currently using bash as shell)
>
> Thanks a lot
>   


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