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How to convert a string to upper or lower case in bash?

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posted Monday, 2 October 2006

Assuming tr is available on the system,

Convert the given argument into an all lower case string.

toLower() {
  echo $1 | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" 
}

Convert the given argument into an all lower case string.

toUpper() {
  echo $1 | tr "[:lower:]" "[:upper:]" 
}

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