Re: lowercase to uppercase

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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:36:22PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> RedHat wrote:
> >Hello.
> >I am looking for a way to permanently change  the contents of a 
> >directory from lowercase to uppercase.
> 
> Every time this question comes up, several people post scripts that
> will happily overwrite or otherwise mangle your data.  I suggest this
> one, which I believe to be safe:

NO!  I tested it to see what it would do with files with blanks in the
name.  Lo and behold, not only did it bugger up that file, I now have
a lot of files that start with "--" in their file name.

Time to go clean up that mess...

        .../Ed
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