Making all the filenames in a directory lowercase?

minm · 12-20-2004, 03:43 PM

How do i make it so all the files in a directory and sub directory are lowercase?

I want too also make it so it can make files with spaces in them a lowercase..

Is this possible?

Thanks

Tinkster · 12-20-2004, 03:49 PM

Sure is possible, and I've seen similar posts to yours
asked and answered at least twice in the last few days ;)

Have a search!

Cheers,
Tink

mjrich · 12-20-2004, 03:53 PM

You can use the venerable Sed: http://docs.biostat.wustl.edu/cgi-bi...lower%2520case. Or just use tr, e.g.

Code:

for f in *; do
g=`expr "xxx$f" : 'xxx\(.*\)' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
mv "$f" "$g"
done

minm · 12-24-2004, 12:39 AM

Thanks, where would i put that code in?

scuzzman · 12-24-2004, 12:50 AM

a shell script