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Old 11-17-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Code:
dir=$(dirname /some/path/to/a/file)
result="$dir/$(basename /some/path/to/a/file | tr -s '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"
echo "$result"