On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 03:49:00PM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira 
wrote:
>       Hi debian users,
>       I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember 
> that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well.
>       Any hints?
>       Have a nice day,                Paulo Henrique

Try this script...I forget where I got it but....

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#!/bin/sh

#
# up2lo - rename files from uppercase to lower case.
#
for i in $*
do
file=`echo $i | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
mv $i $file
done

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