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

[James Taylor]

Tested against a subset.
got the following error for each file.

tr: missing operand after `[:upper:][:lower:]'
Two strings must be given when translating.

Left all the original files with names unchanged and zero bytes.
Left copies of the file in the root of /tmp/folder

-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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>>> "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> 08/27/07 8:34 PM >>> 
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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> The East Cobb Group, Inc.
> 678-697-9420
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
> http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
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