Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!john
From: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: moving upper case names to lower case
Message-ID: <9326@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Aug 89 15:58:53 GMT
References: <20672@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt)
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In article <20672@adm.BRL.MIL> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty) writes:
>I'm looking for a good, clean way to move files from upper case names to lower case names.
>
>i.e. FOO.C to foo.c
>
>I could always right a C program, but there gotta be a better way.
>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

main()
{
	register int c;
	while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
		putchar(tolower(c));
}

It's easier to write and compile this than to get tr to massage
the string for you.  
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