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 -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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