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Date:      Sat, 17 May 2008 10:01:56 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        stevefranks@ieee.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: need to lcase/tolower/strlwr a directory hierarchy, is there an intrinsic util?
Message-ID:  <44wsltav1n.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90805141526t698546e9j4dedc51a772efdbd@mail.gmail.com> (Steve Franks's message of "Wed\, 14 May 2008 15\:26\:41 -0700")
References:  <539c60b90805141526t698546e9j4dedc51a772efdbd@mail.gmail.com>

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"Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> writes:

> Just found strings(1), the util, thought there might be something like
> that for lcase/tolower/strlwr?  Would definitely pretty up my old
> photos directories from my win32 days...

Not clear on what you want here.  

Maybe something like 
  for fil in "[A-Z]* ; do mv $fil `echo $fil |tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" ` ; done
[untested], perhaps?
-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/



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