RedHat wrote > This worked for me. <snip> That's a little heavy ;) You're spawning 4 subshells for every rename. You don't need any, if you don't use /bin/sh. /bin/sh is a good tool, but it's not the only one, and in this case (IMO), it's not the best one. Timings for 5000 files created as all uppercase names from dict/words : men<justinb>1718% time sh ../yours 16.790u 34.830s 0:56.52 91.3% 0+0k 0+0io 1335239pf+0w versus amen<justinb>1724% time perl ../mine 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' * 0.490u 3.510s 0:04.44 90.0% 0+0k 0+0io 298pf+0w -justinb -- Justin Banks Constant Data, Inc. http://www.constantdata.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
