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Created September 11, 2019 14:31
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Bash command to lowercase the first line (column headers) of each CSV file in a directory, and export them to a "lower" subdirectory
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for f in *.csv; do (head -n1 $f |tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'; tail -n +2 $f) > ./lower/$f; done
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