[OT] Changing the case of filenames

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:45:05PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> You could use a script like this one:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for f in *
> do
>         F="`echo $f | tr a-z A-Z`"
>         echo Renaming \"$f\" to \"$F\"
> 	mv "$f" "$F"
> done
> 

Or more concisely

for f in *; do mv -v $f $( echo $f | tr a-z A-Z ); done

(Not that there's anything wrong with the original script.)


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