Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

> 	Hi debian users,
> 	I need to translate 800 filenames from upcase to lowercase. I remember 
> that I can do this with tr, but I don't know very well.

In tcsh:

$ foreach F (*)
foreach? mv $F `echo $F | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
foreach? end

In bash, it would be something like:

for F in *;
do mv $F `echo $F | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
done;   

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