[Gllug] Changing case on filenames

[Nix]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Simon Stewart stipulated:
> You're right, but the filenames should be quoted:
> 
> mv "$i" "`echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'n-z-a-m'`"
> 
> is more safe. As someone on this list (tet?) likes to point out
> occasionally.

This also is unsafe; you mean

mv "./$i" "./`echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'n-z-a-m'`"

(which isn't safe if you're mving absolute filenames; it can be extended
to handle that but it's really ugly)

or, with a reasonably new mv(1)

mv -- "$i" "`echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'n-z-a-m'`"

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