[Techtalk] lower to upper case

[Kathryn Hogg]

> On 10/9/07, Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org> wrote:
>> for file in *
>> do
>>         mv $file `echo $file | tr '[a-z]' 'A-Z'`
>> done
>>
>> In my text editor I'd simply replace each filename with \U& but that
>> isn't possible directly in bash.
>>
>> Is there an even simpler way?

Not necessarily simpler but you should use tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

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