[ale] script or app to set all files to lower case

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 20:13 -0400, James Taylor wrote:
> I need to convert a volume with several hundred thousand files with mixed case file names to all lower case.
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> Any suggestions for a quick, fast and easy utility to accomplish this?
>  -jt
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for i in `ls -1`
do
cat $i | tr [:upper:][:lower:] > $i.lower
mv $i /tmp/$i
mv $i.lower $i
done

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> James Taylor
> The East Cobb Group, Inc.
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
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