[lug] Perl question

[Ken Weinert]

* JEFF PFOHL (pfohl at sandia.gov) [000331 15:12]:
> I'm not a Perl guru. Why don't you just do this in /bin/sh?
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # this script converts file names from upper to lower case
> for FILE in *
> do
> mv $FILE `echo $FILE|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
> done

        One thing: there may be files that differ only by case - the
perl checks for this, your shell does not :-)

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