all lowercase text

[SlowMove]

i'm new to linux. does anyone have a simple script to open up a text file and convert all the characters to lowercase?

[dingman]

Nope, but it'd be really easy to write in Perl.

#/usr/bin/perl -w 
while (<STDIN>) { 
 print lc($_); 
} 

$ cat textfile ¦ name-of-perl-file > lowercasefile

The above code is completely off-the-cuff, and Perl is not my primary language. It might destroy everything on your computer, or do nothing.

[SlowMove]

It probably won't do any damage. I'll try it. Thanks.

[andrew_m]

perl -ne 'print lc' yourfile.txt

tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' < yourfile.txt

and probably a dozen other ways..