RE: Unix filenames from capital to small letters

assuming you are in the right directory & there are only files in it, this will work :

for file in $(ls) ; do typeset -l lfile=$file ; mv $file $lfile ; done

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> From: ALEMU Abiy[SMTP:abiy.alemu_at_criltechnology.com]
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> Subject: Unix filenames from capital to small letters
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> It might be certainly an outof subject area question but I don't know
> where
> to raise this question. It's great if someone can help me.
> My problem is that I have a lot of files in a directory whose names are
> all
> in capital letters and I would like to change them all in small letters.
> Is
> there any one line UNIX command to do this ? Please help !!!
>
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Received on Wed Aug 30 2000 - 08:41:04 CDT