[PLUG] Converting Uppercase File Names to Lowercase

[David Fleck]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Paul Mullen wrote:
> That sounds like a different "rename" command than the one I'm
> familiar with.  The version on my systems produces the following
> usage message:
>
>  $ rename
>  Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]
>
> Its manpage shows that it was originally written by Larry Wall (father
> of Perl).  A Web search indicates that there is, indeed, more than one
> "rename" command out there:


I think Paul's "rename" command is a little Perl script cooked up by Wall 
eons ago and scattered across the Internet since then; sometime later 
several Linux distributions started adding a small binary file, which 
sounds like the one that Rich found on his system.

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David Fleck
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