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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: HELP converting filenames!
Message-ID: <714@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 17:20:52 GMT
References: <2694@taux01.UUCP>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <2694@taux01.UUCP>, by amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir):
> In article <9754@cadnetix.COM> rusty@cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth) writes:
> |
> |First, go to the directory of interest and do 'ls -1 > doit'.
> |Chmod 777 doit. Now, go edit 'doit' (for all you emacs haters
> |out there, sorry but emacs seems to work better for what I'm about
> |to suggest than does vi) .....

long discourse on emacs use deleted

> What?  You have to do all that in emacs, and you still claim it's
> better than vi?  To save vi's lost honor, here's how it should be done:
> 
> :%s/.*/mv & \U&\e/
> 
> One line, no macros needed.

I'd agree with Amos, except why not do the following:

foreach i ( filelist )
mv $i `echo $i | tr a-z A-Z`
end

(or if you still live in the dark ages)

for i in filelist
do
mv $i `echo $i | tr a-z A-Z`
done
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