ignorecase in AWK

Question

The following command is working as expected.

# some command | awk \'/(\\<^create\\>|\\<^alter\\>|\\<^drop\\>)/,/;/\' 
create table todel1         


        

Answer 1

Add IGNORECASE = 1; to the beginning of your awk command like so:

bash-3.2$ echo "Create" | awk '/^create/;'
bash-3.2$ echo "Create" | awk 'IGNORECASE = 1;/^create/;'
Create