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Old 03-26-2006
Tools renaming files in a directory to lowercase

can anybody help me in renaming all the file in a directory to lowercase? script will be helpful.
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Old 03-26-2006
Code:
 for filename in *
 do
 newfile=`echo $filename | tr [A-Z] [a-z]
 mv $filename $newfile 
 done

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