file names, switching from upper to lower

bhert · 08-13-2006, 09:02 PM

Hello, what is the best way to switch a group of file names in a directory from upper to lower case and vice versa? Thanks.

bhert

gilead · 08-13-2006, 09:21 PM

The following will translate the lower case characters in a filename to upper case for all of the files in the ls part:

Code:

for z in `ls`; do mv $z `echo $z | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]`; done

bhert · 08-13-2006, 09:39 PM

Thanks gilead

, I have been trying varities of for loops earlier but couldn't get it right before. Thanks again for your help.

bhert

gilead · 08-13-2006, 09:43 PM

No problem - glad to help