.TH lowercase "" "" "/rdb Command"
.PC "Transform text to lower case"
\fBlowercase [\fIstring ...\fB] [< \fIfile\fB]\fR
.PP
.II "string^convert to lower case"
.II "convert string to lower case"
The command
.B lowercase
converts to lower case every letter in
.I string
or
.IR file .
If there are no arguments, it reads and converts the standard input.
It uses
.BR tr ,
the COHERENT character-translation command, to do the converting.
.SH Example
The command:
.DM
	lowercase BIG WORDS
.DE
.PP
prints
.DM
	big words
.DE
.PP
on the standard output.
.PP
If the file
.B CAPITALS
contains the string
.DM
	THESE ARE ALL CAPS.
.DE
.PP
then the command
.DM
	lowercase < CAPITALS
.DE
.PP
prints on the standard output:
.DM
	these are all caps.
.DE
.SH "See Also"
.B
cap,
uppercase
.R
.br
COHERENT Lexicon:
.B
tr
.R
.SO lowercase