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From: gora@iastate.edu (Gora Mohanty)
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: 20 Nov 96 03:32:56 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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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?

Regards,
Gora