On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 06:07:19PM -0600, Larry Lade wrote:
> Is there a command which converts all filenames in a directory to lower
> case? I was about to write a perl script to do so, but I'm sure there's
> a standard tool to do it... one I can't seem to find or remember.
>
yes, it's not hard to do with standad tools. Here's an "off the top
o'me head" stab at it:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $*
do
mv $i `echo $i | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
done
Note that those are 'backquotes', not apostrophes.
Fred
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