Shell script to read a character (upper or lower), digit, special symbol and display message according to the character entered

#!/bin/bash
# Shell script to read a character (upper or lower), digit, special symbol and
# display message according to the character entered
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# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
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# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
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char=""
echo -n "Enter a one character : "
read char
# use sed command to determine input character is digit or not
# -e : start script
# s/[0-9]// : Attempt to match regex [0-9] i.e. all digit against the pattern space (echo $char).
# If  successful,  replace  that  portion  matched  with replacement i.e. // do nothing. 
# g : Global replacement
# so if digit are in input it will replace all those digit, and if input is only digit, nothing
# is left i.e. string is zero and that is what tasted with -z
if [ -z $(echo $char | sed -e 's/[0-9]//g') ]
then
	echo "$char is Number/digit"
elif [ -z $(echo $char | sed  -e 's/[A-Z]//g') ] # find out if character is upper
then
        echo "$char is UPPER character"
 
elif [ -z $(echo $char | sed -e 's/[a-z]//g') ] # find out if character is lower
then
        echo "$char is lower character"
else
	echo "$char is Special symbol" # else it is special character
fi