var=hello #For Bash Version higher than 4.3.33 try these
echo ${var''} #Uppercase whole string
HELLO
echo ${var'} #Uppercase only first char of string
Hello
var2=BYE
echo ${var2,} #Lowercase whole string
bye
echo ${var2,,} #Lowercase only first char of string
bYE
echo $var | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' #For lower versions of Bash just use tr command
HELLO

# Basic syntax:
tolower(string)
toupper(string)

# Example usage:
awk '{print tolower($0)}' input_file
# This prints every row ($0) converted to lowercase

awk '{print toupper($3)}' input_file
# This would print the third field ($3) converted to uppercase

echo "enter a char"
read c

if [[ $c == [A-Z] ]];
then
    echo "upper"
elif [[ $c == [a-z] ]];
then
    echo "lower"
else 
    echo "Digit or special symbols!"
fi