[ale] xargs w/ tr

[dhurst at kennesaw.edu (Dow Hurst)]

You could run xargs with the -p, or interactive option, to see what it 
has interpreted the command line to actually be.  Might help.
Dow


David S. Jackson wrote:

>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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