[SOLVED] Case insensitive comparison of strings in shell script

Issue

The == operator is used to compare two strings in shell script. However, I want to compare two strings ignoring case, how can it be done? Is there any standard command for this?

Solution

if you have bash

str1="MATCH"
str2="match"
shopt -s nocasematch
case "$str1" in
 $str2 ) echo "match";;
 *) echo "no match";;
esac

otherwise, you should tell us what shell you are using.

alternative, using awk

str1="MATCH"
str2="match"
awk -vs1="$str1" -vs2="$str2" 'BEGIN {
  if ( tolower(s1) == tolower(s2) ){
    print "match"
  }
}'

Answered By - ghostdog74

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)