[OT] Changing the case of filenames
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Fri Apr 29 13:52:22 UTC 2005
David Niemi wrote:
>I am running a fortran program which requires all input file names to be
>uppercase. As things were originally done in Windo$e all the filenames
>are mixed case (with numbers).
>
>Searching around I came across the "tr" command, but my difficulty comes
>in trying to use this from the command line (or even in a bash script).
>
> mv * | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
>
>Does not work as mv requires a directory for the objective with multiple
>files. All of the scripts that I have seen are mainly for changing the
>case of text in a text file so wouldn't work for me.
>
>So, how would I do this?
>
>TIA Dave
>
>
>
for i in [A-Z]*
do
j=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
mv $i $j
regards
Rahul
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