[Gllug] Changing case on filenames

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:54:32PM +0000, Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 March 2002 10:11 am, Alain Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:58:38AM +0000, Rob Andrews wrote:
> > > [05-Mar-2002 00:47.41 (GMT) / Mike Brodbelt]
> > >
> 
> > Worst are some printers that do not distinguish between the two sorts of
> > quotes, ie the glyphs are the same. I get the impression that one of the
> > PostScript fonts does this.
> >
> > That is part of the reason that I avoid using back quotes in scripts and
> > always use $( command ... )
> > instead. The semantics are slightly improved as well.
> 
> Alain, would you like to give an example, using the the previous script as 
> an example but using the $( command ... ) please.

Oh, that is long deleted ..., but

	for file in *
	do	newfile=$( echo "$file" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
		[[ $newfile = $file ]] && continue
		mv "$file" "$newfile"
	done

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Alain Williams

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