change hostname from lowercase to uppercase

[madra]

I can't find the reason as to why root won't convert the hostname to uppercase, but my ordinary ID will.

NODE="`hostname| tr [a-z] [A-Z]`"; echo $NODE

thanks,
madra


I only ask stupid questions because I'm thick

 

[Aixcrafter]

I dont know why is it happen, by you can use the following command:

hostname| tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'

 

[p5wizard]

that should be [tt]NODE=`tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`[/tt]

And the reason [tt]root[/tt] doesn't translate is because you omitted the single quotes, resulting in the shell translating [tt][a-z][/tt] into the letter [tt]u[/tt] because in / directory (default home dir of root) there is a pathname called [tt]/u[/tt] (symlink to /home). In your homedir there probably aren't any single letter filenames or dirnames.

HTH,

p5wizard