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You could write an awk script, making use of the tolower function.
It could use mv -i or whatever.


Patrick Seal wrote:
> 
> I have a directory with filenames like:
> FOO.xxx
> Bar.yyy
> hex.zzz
> 
> What would be the easiest way to convert them to lowercase (and possibly
> checking for existing lowercase counterparts before overwriting them)
>

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