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Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:01:56 -0500
From:      "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: batch rename
Message-ID:  <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com>

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Jeff Laine wrote:
> Hi to all.
>
> My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize
> starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple
> but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some
> shell-script?

This assumes tcsh:

foreach i (`ls [A-Z][a-z]*`)
    mv $i `echo $i|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
end
>
>
> TIA
>


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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
Developer, not business, friendly.
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