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From:	malte@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
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To:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: here strings
Forwarding: Mail from 'John (Most modern computers would break if you stood on them) Mackin <john@civil.su.oz.au>'
      dated: 	Sat, 5 Jun 1993 08:35:30 -0400

	a directory full of files that had come from, ah, another operating
	system, and the names were all upper-case:

		for (f in *) mv $f `{tr A-Z a-z <<<$f}

	OK,
	John.

Your lucky this worked because most (especially on older unixes) text
utilities require their input to end in a '\n'. Then you'd have to

		for (f in *) mv $f `{echo $f | tr A-Z a-z}

Malte