Case Insensitive comparision of strings in Shell script

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Published on 2009-11-13T11:31:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 20:03 UTC
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The == is used to compare two string in shell script, however I want to compare two strings by ignoring case, how it can be done.Do we any standard command for this.

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