"drew" == drew cohan <debian@drewcohan.com> writes:
drew> How do I rename all files in a directory matching the
drew> pattern *.JPG to *.jpg in a bash shell script? Thanks to
drew> you guys I can check for the existence of jpgs in a
drew> directory, but can't seem get 'mv' to rename them for me
drew> (always complains that the last argument must be a
drew> directory).
Still another way:
for i in *.JPG
do
mv $i `basename $i .JPG`.jpg
done
Cheers!
Shyamal