Make variables uppercase in bash.

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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs: ·Embarq	Make variables uppercase in bash. I am trying to take part of a string and make it uppercase. For example: `export var='abcdefg' echo ${var:2:1}` With the exception that I need this to return 'C', not 'c'. The only thing I have been able to find are commands that take a whole file as a parameter and makes it all uppercase. Can anyone help me do this please?
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	I suppose you can't use tr? echo ${var:2:1} \| tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' would work, but I take it you want to avoid using tr? -- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates
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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs:	All the examples of tr that I saw had to take files. I didn't think about using pipes. I think that should work. I'll try it and let you know.
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	oh ok! cool, should do the trick.
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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs: ·Embarq	I think I may need to be a little more specific. We are writing a bash script that reads some stuff and builds a control file for Oracle's sqlldr, and then we execute sqlldr with the build control file. Our code looks much like this: if [ "${LINE}" = "amico.990120" ]; then echo Building amic control file for ${LINE} echo LOAD DATA > file_loader.ctl echo INFILE \'${LINE}\' >> file_loader.ctl echo APPEND >> file_loader.ctl echo INTO TABLE schema.table >> file_loader.ctl echo "(" >> file_loader.ctl echo " column1(1:2)," >> file_loader.ctl echo " column2(3:4)," >> file_loader.ctl echo " column3 CONSTANT '" ${LINE:4:1} \| tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' "'," >> file_loader.ctl echo ")" >> file_loader.ctl sqlldr user/pass@database file_loader.ctl log=sqlldr.log silent=FEEDBACK else echo No Amic file found fi done < myAmicFiles The myAmicFiles just looks like this: amici.990120 amici.990220 amico.990520 amico.990620 I need the i or o to be uppercase. -- "Padre, nobody said war was fun now bowl!" - Sherman T Potter »www.cafepress.com/maxolasersquad »maxolasersquad.com/ »maxolasersquad.com/network/ My DSL Network Guide »myspace.com/mlsquad
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	Looks like a good place for a perl script.
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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs: ·Embarq	said by deblin : Looks like a good place for a perl script. If you knew what Perl and I had been through the last two and a half weeks you wouldn't joke like that.
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	said by Maxo : said by deblin : Looks like a good place for a perl script. If you knew what Perl and I had been through the last two and a half weeks you wouldn't joke like that. heh! ok, well let me take a look. -- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	reply to Maxo So in this line: quote: echo " column3 CONSTANT '" ${LINE:4:1} \| tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' "'," >> file_loader.ctl You want just the capital letter? E.g. for LINE = amico.990120 you want just the O? Or do you want amicO.990120 ? -- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	reply to Maxo Probably the easiest thing to do would be to set a variable for the letter first, then just use that variable. e.g instead of: bash code: echo " column3 CONSTANT '" ${LINE:4:1} \| tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' "'," >> file_loader.ctl try: bash code: the_char=`echo ${LINE:4:1} \| tr a-z A-Z` echo " column3 CONSTANT '$the_char'," >> file_loader.tcl Again, assuming you just want the O there and not the full name. If you want the full name, it'd be slightly more involved but not terribly so. -- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates
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Sir Meowmix III @windstream.net	reply to Maxo What about using sed? s/i/I/g s/o/O/g
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deblin Dark Side of the Moon Premium,MVM join:2001-09-01 Middletown, DE	said by Sir Meowmix III : What about using sed? s/i/I/g s/o/O/g Good call, that'd work, if he anchor'd it to the ".", e.g.: bash code: ... \| sed 's/o\./O./g' \| sed 's/i\./I\./g' -- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates
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Sir Meowmix III @windstream.net	reply to Maxo Agree, good call, at that point the regex would be positional on the file extension.
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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs:	reply to deblin the_char=`echo ${LINE:4:1} \| tr a-z A-Z` The above line just returns the given string literal, not the results of the echo.
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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs: ·Embarq	reply to Sir Meowmix III I've never used sed before and have only recently began reading up on regular expressions. I read through the man pages and looked at the code you gave. It appears to work with the following code: echo $LINE \| sed 's/o\./O\./g' \| sed 's/i\./I\./g' The only thing that is missing is how to take the result of this output and store it in a variable. -- "Padre, nobody said war was fun now bowl!" - Sherman T Potter »www.cafepress.com/maxolasersquad »maxolasersquad.com/ »maxolasersquad.com/network/ My DSL Network Guide »myspace.com/mlsquad
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Sir Meowmix III	MYVAR=$(echo $LINE \| sed 's/o\./O\./g' \| sed 's/i\./I\./g') echo $MYVAR
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Maxo Your tax dollars at work. Premium,VIP join:2002-11-04 Tallahassee, FL clubs: ·Embarq	said by Sir Meowmix III : [code] MYVAR=$(echo $LINE \| sed 's/o\./O\./g' \| sed 's/i\./I\./g') echo $MYVAR [/code] That did it. Thanks a lot. You can probably tell that we just started learning how to write these scripts a few weeks ago.
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Sir Meowmix III	reply to Maxo Glad to help Maxo. Feel free to ask for help anytime you get stuck.
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nixen Rockin' the Boxen Premium join:2002-10-04 Alexandria, VA ·Cox HSI ·Speakeasy 1 edit	reply to Maxo said by Maxo : I've never used sed before and have only recently began reading up on regular expressions. I read through the man pages and looked at the code you gave. It appears to work with the following code: echo $LINE \| sed 's/o\./O\./g' \| sed 's/i\./I\./g' The only thing that is missing is how to take the result of this output and store it in a variable. VAR=`$LINE \| sed -e 's/o\./O\./g' -e 's/i\./I\./g'` Or even: VAR=`$LINE \| sed '{ s/o\./O\./g s/i\./I\./g }'` -- The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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