# Examples" by Bruce Blinn, published by Prentice Hall.
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#

DownShift() {
     #
     # NAME
     #    DownShift - downshift the characters in a string
     #
     # SYNOPSIS
     #    DownShift string
     #
     # DESCRIPTION
     #    This function will downshift the alphabetic
     #    characters in the string.  Nonalphabetic
     #    characters will not be affected.  The downshifted
     #    string will be written to the standard output.
     #    

     echo "$@" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'
}