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From: conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Filenames -- converting
Message-ID: <3781@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 9 Jun 89 02:13:33 GMT
References: <1011@cernvax.UUCP> <3339@cps3xx.UUCP> <655@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <25879@beta.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <25879@beta.lanl.gov> srb@beta.UUCP ( Steve Berger ) writes:
>
> I have a directory with all the filenames in Uppercase letters.
> I'd like to move them all to lowercase.
>
> Is there an easy way to do that?  I figure there must be a way using
> sed  or something, but I haven't figured it out yet, and I don't want to
> go thru and  use  mv to move each file name, that will take me forever.
>
fat chance of changing the name of a file unless you either copy it
or 'mv' it. doing a 'mv' doesn't take to much time.
unless you hack around with the inode table and stuff.
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