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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: Changing upper-case filenames to lower-case
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Date: 22 Nov 89 00:14:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: kfink@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Kevin Fink)

In article <3116@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, kfink@jarthur (Kevin Fink) writes:
| Is there an easy way to change all the upper-case characters in a filename
| (or set of filenames) to lower-case?
| 
| Whenever I transfer files from my PC to the mainframe the filenames get
| changed to all caps. This is really annoying.

Deja vu.  Didn't we just answer this one?

The solution in Perl:

perl -e 'for$f(<*>){($_=$f)=~y/A-Z/a-z/;rename($f,$_)unless$f eq$_;}'

The solution in sh, tr, echo:

for i in *
do
	mv $i `echo $i | tr A-Z a-z`
done

There.  Isn't this in the FAQ list?

Just another Perl hacker,
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