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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:38:40 +0200
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: galenboyer AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: KSH to Bash conversion
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <ur903uobj.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Galen Boyer on 12 Mar
	2001 08:08:48 -0500)
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> 
> In KSH, I have the following statement:
> 
> typeset -u TableName=$2

THIS IS DEFINITELY OFF TOPIC. Please don't ask more bash questions here.

Anyway since you have done your noise, here are some answers.

1. To convert to upper case you can use `tr' like this:
       TableName=`echo "$2" | tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"`
   Please note all the " and ` - they are essential.

2. Echo of escaped (backslashed) characters.
   Beside the -e argument you can:
   2.1  Use /bin/echo
   2.2  Set the xpg_echo option (shopt -s xpg_echo)
   2.3  Compile bash with --enable-usg-echo-default

Remember in Cygwin sh is not bash (it is ash). You can change this by
removing/renaming sh and sym-linking bash to sh (that's what I do).

I STRONGLY suggest you read the bash man page(s) carefully.

Ehud.


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