sed or awk question

computera · 12-22-2003, 07:12 PM

want to run a command on a directory, to change all file names in capital letters to small caps..

any suggestions?

much thanks

arooze · 12-30-2003, 04:39 AM

You could do it with a simple script like:

files=`ls|grep [A-Z]`
for i in $files
do
mv $i `echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
done

# Mind the backquotes!!!!

If you put an 'echo' command before the 'mv' command you will see what will actually happen:
echo mv $i `echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`