How to change a mass of filename in a dir?

superztnt · 07-26-2004, 09:26 PM

I have a folder with a lot of files in it and they have all capital letters in their names. I want to change all the capital letters to lower case letters on these file names. For example:

C06_038.HTM changed to c06_038.htm

How can I do this without renaming each file individually? I was hoping that there was something I could use to do it with a command or two.

Lleb_KCir · 07-26-2004, 09:27 PM

i would reserch the man page for mv, but you might find this will work.

mv *.HTM *.htm

that should move any file with a HTM extention and rename them all to what ever.htm

im not 100% on that so i would check the man page first, but i would think that should do the trick.

chakkerz · 07-27-2004, 07:58 AM

man rename

Gnuru · 07-27-2004, 08:22 AM

The easiest way to do this appears to be a perl one-liner:

Code:

perl -MFile::Copy -e 'move $_, lc($_) foreach glob "*"'

The above operates on all files in the working directory to which you have to cd first.

There is a bash script that does the same thing here:

http://gnuru.org/index.pl?node_id=814

Gnuru · 07-27-2004, 08:29 AM

That's true, rename is better. Just cd to the working directory and do this:

Code:

rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *