[OT] Changing the case of filenames
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 29 13:52:39 UTC 2005
Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Friday 29 April 2005 09:39 am, 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?
>
>
> find . -type f -exec tr [a-z] [A-Z] {} \;
> should work
No, it shouldn't. The "tr" process would have nothing to do since no
input was provided to it.
Paul.
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