[Gllug] Changing case on filenames

[Nix]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Alain Williams said:
> 	do	newfile=$( echo "$file" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
> 		[[ $newfile = $file ]] && continue

Note that these cases are very different. In [[ ]], the spaces around
the [[ and ]] elements are necessary; but in $( ) they are not, viz

newfile=$(echo "$file" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')

is perfectly valid.

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