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Subject: Re: need to lcase/tolower/strlwr a directory hierarchy,
	is there an intrinsic util?
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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?
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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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