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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help Need a UTIL for Case Sensitive Files.
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:27:49 -0800
Organization: University of Washington
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References: <01bbd5d3$54b9d060$86629dcc@big-one> <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119142024.2275A-100000@boqueron.vnet.es> <gora.848460776@pv7402.vincent.iastate.edu>
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To: Gora Mohanty <gora@iastate.edu>
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Gora Mohanty wrote:
>
> In <Pine.LNX.3.91.961119142024.2275A-100000@boqueron.vnet.es> Francisco Rodrigo <frer@vnet.es> writes:
>
> [Mucho snippage]
>
> >Just do this:
>
> >cd /your/directory
> >for a in *; do mv $a `echo $a | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`; done
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Huh? What version of tr uses that syntax to convert from uppercase to
> lowercase?
>
man tr
[snip]
[:class:] Represents all characters belonging to the defined
character
class. Class names are:
alnum <alphanumeric characters>
alpha <alphabetic characters>
cntrl <control characters>
digit <numeric characters>
graph <graphic characters>
lower <lower-case alphabetic characters>
print <printable characters>
punct <punctuation characters>
space <space characters>
upper <upper-case characters>
xdigit <hexadecimal characters>
--
Steve
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