Changing case of files.

[StickyBit]

Hi folks,

I have been working with Unix for a short while, and I have a small problem. I have a directory with lots of html files in it that are all in upper case. I would like to change the case of all the files to lower case. How can I accomplish this, please help.

Stickybit

 

[ayjaycee]

How about this ...
[tt]
#!/bin/sh
cd html-dir
for F in `ls`
do
Flow=`echo $F | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
mv $F $Flow
done
[/tt](thanks to trunix for reminding me of "tr" - always forgetting that useful guy ;-))

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[trunix]

This short script should do it for you .

for file in `ls -1`
do
echo $file > tmp_file
mv $file `tr &quot;[:upper:]&quot; &quot;[:lower:]&quot; < tmp_file`
done

An explanation :-
ls -1 produces a list of filenames
These are placed one at a time into tmp_file
The mv command renames the original file to a new name
which is produced from the tr command which changes upper case to lower case.

I would recommend that you test this on some dummy files before using it, and as always .... backup your files before changing them.

 

[trunix]

ayjaycee....

You just got in before me !
I also used tr but in a different way.....

One problem ...... many solutions !

Trunix