How to Neglect Case Sensitivity in Unix?

[Guest_imported]

Hi There!

Does anyone know how to make your script non case sensitive.
For example I want the user to input a specific filename to be manipulated in a directory. But the filename have both small and capital letters. How can I neglect the case so that no error message will be given and I will also be able to access the specific file?

Thanks!
kitzzz

 

[MikeLacey]

What language/shell are you writing your script in?

Which version of UNIX are you running? Mike
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[Guest_imported]

hi mike, it's bourne shell

 

[vgersh99]

man tr

 

[MikeLacey]

Yup - use tr to convert a filename into upper case, then compare it against the uppercase name you got from the user. Mike
______________________________________________________________________
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[art15t]

Here's a simple example of 'tr'

So if you want to compare your filename against that which the user enters, you'll have to do likewise with the filename variable that you use.

#! /bin/sh

echo "\nEnter file name: \c"
read ANSWER
echo "Filename was to converted to:\
`echo $ANSWER|tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`\n"