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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
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Subject: Re: Neat utility to convert uppercase filenames
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Date: 7 Dec 90 21:29:14 GMT
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The following Bourne shell script has always worked well for me:

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

For Sys V, put square brackets around the tr strings.

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