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Re: KSH to Bash conversion
- To: Galen Boyer <galenboyer at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: KSH to Bash conversion
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz at teknowledge dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:12:46 -0800
Galen,
It looks like BASH once had a typeset built-in, but no more. However, it
apparently never supported a "-u" option:
--====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====--
1004> help typeset
typeset: typeset [-afFrxi] [-p] name[=value] ...
Obsolete. See `declare'.
1005> help declare
declare: declare [-afFrxi] [-p] name[=value] ...
Declare variables and/or give them attributes...
The flags are:
-a to make NAMEs arrays (if supported)
-f to select from among function names only
-F to display function names without definitions
-r to make NAMEs readonly
-x to make NAMEs export
-i to make NAMEs have the `integer' attribute set
....
--====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====----====--
So, knowing no more "direct" solution here's what I'd do:
1008> "var=UpPeR- AnD LoWeR-CaSe"
1009> echo $var
UpPeR- AnD LoWeR-CaSe
1010> uVar="$(echo "$var" |tr 'a-z' 'A-Z')"
1011> echo $uVar
UPPER- AND LOWER-CASE
1012> lVar="$(echo "$var" |tr 'A-Z' 'a-z')"
1013> echo $lVar
upper- and lower-case
Randall Schluz
At 05:08 3/12/2001, you wrote:
>In KSH, I have the following statement:
>
>typeset -u TableName=$2
>
>Then, I was assured that immdiately when the parameter was
>recieved by the script it was converted to uppercase. I need the
>corresponding statement in Bash.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Galen Boyer
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