Re: file extensions

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 30 Jul, Aaron Solochek wrote about "file extensions"
> are .MP3 and therefor not recognized as a music file.  Question two,
> related to that, is this:  is there an easy way ( a quick command or
> script) to covert all the .MP3's to .mp3.  Strangly enough "mv" doesn't
> differentiate between .mp3 and .MP3, so I need to change the name to a
> temporary file first, which makes the task all the more annoying.
> 

I'll answer question 2.  Install the package mmv.  Read the mmv man
page. Then the following will move all *.MP3 to *.mp3 in the current
directory.

mmv '*.MP3' '#1.mp3'

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Brian 
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