On 24 Jul 1998, Joerg Plate wrote: > > Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they > > are lowercase? > > 1> cat /usr/local/bin/rename > #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw > > use locale; > [...]
Why not, in bash: for f in $(ls); do oldName=$f newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z]) mv -i $oldName $newName done I'd not bother with the variable names, but they make it clearer. Disclaimer: I didn't test the above, and may have gotten the tr syntax wrong. But you get the idea. --Eric House +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
