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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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Subject: Re: lowercase routine.
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.041500.15152@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 11 Sep 90 04:15:00 GMT
References: <745@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> <MDB.90Sep8114446@kosciusko.ESD.3Com.COM> <374@anacom1.UUCP>
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In article <374@anacom1.UUCP> jim@anacom1.UUCP (Jim Bacon, CPD Manager) writes:
>>Michael> does anyone have a routine which can be compiled on UNIX that
>>Michael> will read the current directory and convert all upcase names
>>Michael> to lowercase?
>>Michael> maybe some kind of script ???

>>A perl script perhaps? [ deleted...]
>Here is a quick one in C. [deleted..]

Did I miss the obvious shell solution or didn't anyone bother to post it?

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

There are some variations in the syntax for tr but I think that one should
work everywhere.
You might want to add a test for overwriting an existing destination file.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us