sed one-liner to convert all uppercase to lowercase?

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With tr:

# Converts upper to lower case 
$ tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' < input.txt > output.txt

# Converts lower to upper case
$ tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' < input.txt > output.txt

Or, sed on GNU (but not BSD or Mac as they don’t support \L or \U):

# Converts upper to lower case
$ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\L\1/' input.txt > output.txt

# Converts lower to upper case
$ sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\U\1/' input.txt > output.txt

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