examples/functions/lowercase


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#! /bin/bash
#
# original from
# @(#) lowercase.ksh 1.0 92/10/08
# 92/10/08 john h. dubois iii (john@armory.com)
#
# conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey

lowercase()
{
for file; do
    filename=${file##*/}
    case "$filename" in
    */*)    dirname=${file%/*} ;;
    *) dirname=.;;
    esac
    nf=$(echo $filename | tr A-Z a-z)
    newname="${dirname}/${nf}"
    if [ "$nf" != "$filename" ]; then
	mv "$file" "$newname"
	echo "$0: $file -> $newname"
    else
	echo "$0: $file not changed."
    fi
done
}