Re: Uppercasing filenames

[Carla Schroder <carla@bratgrrl.com>]

On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:06 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script
> below, which does...nothing.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> for file in $*
>  do
>  if [ -f $file ]
>  then
>   ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`
>   if [ $file != $ucfile ]
>   then
>   mv -i $file $ucfile
>   fi
>  fi
>  done
>
> Any tips?
>
> TIA
>
> Jeff Elkins


CD to the directory the files are in, then try:

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

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