Thank you.  A starting point, at any rate.  I am not wanting to change a 
single file from uppercase to lowercase, but actually want to change all the 
filenames in a directory from uppercase to their corresponding lowercase 
version (a directory full of fonts - PFBs and AFMs that need to be lowercase 
names).

On Friday 15 December 2000 07:12 pm, you wrote:
> Submitted 15-Dec-00 by Praedor Tempus:
> > Someone once posted a simple script for changing upper case letters to
> > lower case, I believe, in this list.  I didn't keep the message but I now
> > have need of this script.  Could someone please post such a script?
>
> I use the following function to accomplish it:
>
> function tolower {
>        tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'
> }
>
> and then just echo or cat the text and pipe it through the function (i.e.
> cat file.txt | tolower > filenew.txt )

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praedor

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