[ale] xargs w/ tr

[dsj at sylvester.dsj.net (David S. Jackson)]

I was just experimenting with xargs and tr and wondered why the
following didn't work as expected:

locate *.{mp3,MP3} | xargs -I % mv % `echo %|tr A-Z a-z`

What happens is the second % doesn't seem to get tr'ed.  Any idea why?

I know there are lots of other ways to do this, but I'm just curious
about why tr doesn't seem to work here (or maybe it's xargs...).

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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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