how to test for capital letter occurence?

[ogniemi]

in a loop

for i in .....


how test/check id $i has any capital letter?

 

[PHV]

case $i in *[A-Z]*) echo $i has capital letter;; esac

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[p5wizard]

echo $i|grep -q '[A-Z]'
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo $i has one or more capitals
fi

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[columb]

for i in one tWo three
do
  typeset -l TEST
  TEST=$i
  [[ $i = $TEST ]] || echo $i has caps
done

Columb Healy

 

[columb]

Here's another one for the collection

for i in *
do
  expr index $i ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ >/dev/null && echo $i has caps
done

I'd like to have got rid of tha ugly ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ string but I'm not that good with expr.

Columb Healy