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Old 07-18-2009
If you are renaming a lot of files, you will find that too slow. What you can do is to take advantage of "typeset -u" in ksh to ensure the value in the variable is uppercase
Code:
typeset -u upper
for orginal in *
do
  upper=$original
  mv $original $upper
done

With this, you only have to run "mv" command within the loop
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PS2PDF(1)							    Ghostscript 							 PS2PDF(1)

NAME

       ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
       ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

SYNOPSIS

       ps2pdf  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
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       ps2pdf13  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

DESCRIPTION

       The ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) prod-
       uct: they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

       If the output filename is not specified, the output is placed is a file of the same name with a '.pdf' extension. Either the input filename
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       The three scripts differ as follows:

       -      ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf  per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output.  However, this may change in the future. If you care about the compatibility level
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OPTIONS

       The ps2pdf scripts use the same options as gs(1).

EXAMPLES

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	      ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress figure.ps proof.pdf

       Converting as part of a pipe:

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SEE ALSO

       gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
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BUGS

       See http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and the Usenet news group comp.lang.postscript.

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.70.

AUTHOR

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8.70								   31 July 2009 							 PS2PDF(1)