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add ruby version from the comments, and highlight the central point of the answer (international letters)
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hoijui
hoijui
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For the Bash command line and depending on locale and international lettersinternational letters, this might work (assembled from the answers from others):

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | python -c "print(open(0).read().lower())"
abcæøå
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | sed 's/./\L&/g'
abcæøå
$ export a="ABCÆØÅ" | echo "${a,,}"
abcæøå
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | ruby -pe '$_.downcase!'
abcæøå

Whereas these variations might NOT work:

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | awk '{print tolower($1)}'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | perl -ne 'print lc'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo 'ABCÆØÅ' | dd conv=lcase 2> /dev/null
abcÆØÅ

For the Bash command line and depending on locale and international letters, this might work (assembled from the answers from others):

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | python -c "print(open(0).read().lower())"
abcæøå
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | sed 's/./\L&/g'
abcæøå
$ export a="ABCÆØÅ" | echo "${a,,}"
abcæøå

Whereas these variations might NOT work:

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | awk '{print tolower($1)}'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | perl -ne 'print lc'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo 'ABCÆØÅ' | dd conv=lcase 2> /dev/null
abcÆØÅ

For the Bash command line and depending on locale and international letters, this might work (assembled from the answers from others):

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | python -c "print(open(0).read().lower())"
abcæøå
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | sed 's/./\L&/g'
abcæøå
$ export a="ABCÆØÅ" | echo "${a,,}"
abcæøå
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | ruby -pe '$_.downcase!'
abcæøå

Whereas these variations might NOT work:

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | awk '{print tolower($1)}'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | perl -ne 'print lc'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo 'ABCÆØÅ' | dd conv=lcase 2> /dev/null
abcÆØÅ
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Finn Årup Nielsen
Finn Årup Nielsen
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For the Bash command line and depending on locale and international letters, this might work (assembled from the answers from others):

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | python -c "print(open(0).read().lower())"
abcæøå
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | sed 's/./\L&/g'
abcæøå
$ export a="ABCÆØÅ" | echo "${a,,}"
abcæøå

Whereas these variations might NOT work:

$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | awk '{print tolower($1)}'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo "ABCÆØÅ" | perl -ne 'print lc'
abcÆØÅ
$ echo 'ABCÆØÅ' | dd conv=lcase 2> /dev/null
abcÆØÅ