rename v. script

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 20.05.2005 schrieb Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) um

> very useful discussion here.

You can find plenty of (shell) scripting tips on the WWW. A good
resource is certainly the "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide"

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

And a google search for a specific thing may be

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=rename+files+find+xargs&btnG=Search

> how about different ways of renaming *.JPG files to *.jpg? (i.e.
> change to the file extension to lowercase while retaining the file
> name)

for i in *.JPG; do
   mv ${i} ${i%JPG}jpg
done

Alexander


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