Changing filenames from upper to lower case.

[scfc1976]

Hi all,

I have been looking at various threads in relation to this and haven't been able to get the right result. The closest I have got was to turn all uppercase characters within a file to lowercase.

What I need is to change the filename of various files (the amount of which can change at any given bootup).

Example file listing within directory:

AAAAAAAAAAA.txt
BBBBBBBBBBB.txt
CCCCCCCCCCC.txt
DDDDDDDD.txt
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.txt

I have tried the following which changed the contents of the file.

cat AAAAAAAAAAA.txt | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

I'm sure this can't be as difficult as I am making it.

Thanks

scfc1976.

 

[feherke]

Hi

mv "AAAAAAAAAAA.txt" "$( echo "AAAAAAAAAAA.txt" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' )"

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

You may try this:

ls | awk '$0!=tolower($0){printf "mv \"%s\" \"%s\"\n",$0,tolower($0)}' | sh

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[PHV]

OOps.

ls | awk '$0!=tolower($0){printf "mv \"%s\" \"%s\"\n",$0,tolower($0)}' | sh

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[scfc1976]

Thanks for the response. I kept getting syntax errors,
(probably due to seat to keyboard interface), however I mangaed to sort the problem after a bit of a lay off.

My code was:-

#! /bin/sh


cd /home

for file in *
do

if [ -f $file ]
then
ucfile=`echo $file | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
if [ $file != $ucfile ]
then
mv -i $file $ucfile
fi
fi
done

Thanks again.

 

[p5wizard]

OK, just a strange name for a variable (ucfile) that holds a lowercase (lc) filename ... ;-)


HTH,

p5wizard