Ronald J. Hall wrote:

>On Sunday 22 September 2002 05:17 pm, you wrote:
>  
>
>>For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
>>Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
>>when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
>>as a composite.
>>
>>I've hit a snag.
>>
>>Winblows names it's files in higher case.
>>Montage(the programme, part of image magic) seems only willing
>>to work with lowercase named files. There are too many to manually
>>retype.
>>
>>How can I convert windblows named *.JPG files to *.jpg named
>>files on the command line ?
>>
>>John
>>    
>>
>
>Hi John. Just cp the files to where you need them, then while you are in that 
>directory from a shell, type:
>
>for i in *[A-Z]*
>
>Now you at a > prompt. Type
>
>do mv $i `echo $i |tr "A-Z" "a-z"`  (note those are ` not ' , located below 
>your tilde key)
>
>and finally:
>
>done
>
>Hope this helps! :-)
>
>  
>
Yesssss, that works too, don't you just love being in control.

John

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