I'm trying to loop through all file 2

[pavNell]

I'm trying to loop through all filenames in the current directory and replace any filenames that contain uppercase letters to lowercase letters. I'm using tr in a while loop but tr does not do the job in a script. Here's my while loop...

ls -1 | while read filename
do
newname=`echo $filename | tr A-Z a-z`
mv $filename $newname
done

if I echo $newname in the loop, the translation works fine. But mv doesn't like it. Any fixes or suggestions?

 

[vgersh99]

for i in *
do
newname=`echo "${filename}" | tr A-Z a-z`
mv "${filename}" "${newname}"
done vlad
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[SamBones]

Try this...
[tt]
#!/bin/ksh

typeset -l LOWERCASENAME

for FILENAME in `ls -1`
do
LOWERCASENAME=${FILENAME}
if [[ -f ${LOWERCASENAME} ]]
then
print &quot;ERROR: ${LOWERCASENAME} already exists!&quot;
else
mv ${FILENAME} ${LOWERCASENAME}
fi
done
[/tt]
Hope this helps.

 

[pavNell]

Thanks to both of you. They both worked great. Stars for vlad and Sambones!!