Id like to convert it to uppercase for the simple purpose of formatting so it will adhere to a future case statement. As I thought case statements are case sensitive.

I see all over the place the tr command used in concert with echo commands to give you immediate results such as:

echo "Enter in Location (i.e. SDD-134)"
read answer (user enters "cfg"

echo $answer | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'   which produced

cfg # first echo not upper?

echo $answer #echo it again and it is now upper...

CFG