Re: [OT] Changing the case of filenames

From: Rahul Sundaram (sundaram_at_redhat.com)
Date: 04/29/05

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    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
     done

    regards
    Rahul 

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