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From: josef@nixpbe.nixdorf.de (josef Moellers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: CHANGING file names - (small to CAPITOL)
Keywords: small to CAPs
Message-ID: <josef.661159919@ugum01>
Date: 14 Dec 90 07:31:59 GMT
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In <110800@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>In article <10617@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> kyung@uhccux.UUCP (Kyung Lee) writes:
>:	Hi everyone, since unix is case sensitive, I'm having some
>:	problem with file names...small and CAPs.

>This is a feature.

>:	Has anyone ever come up with a program that renames all the
>:	files in a directory from small letter to CAPs??

>That's not the way most people want it changed, you know.  Who
>wants all those ugly capitals anyway?  

Try
% for file in *
> do cap=`echo $file | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
> mv $file $cap
> done
%

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