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From: mbrands@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Manfred Brands)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Filenames -- converting
Message-ID: <443@ssp2.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 9 Jun 89 07:25:41 GMT
References: <1011@cernvax.UUCP> <3339@cps3xx.UUCP> <655@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <25879@beta.lanl.gov>
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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.
>
Try:

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

I use it when I have transferred files from my DOS system to a UNIX system
using Kermit.

Manfred.

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