Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:46:06 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: batch rename Message-ID: <477F27AE.4040807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5DFF4360-3A4A-44B7-A85C-FD6CBF3930BA@gmail.com> References: <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com> <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com> <5DFF4360-3A4A-44B7-A85C-FD6CBF3930BA@gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > > On 05-Jan-08, at 11:31 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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 >>> > > tr will decapitalize all the letters in the string. > You can replace it with the following sed then sed s/^[A-Z]/[a-z]/ - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHfyeujRvRjGmHRgQRAq93AKCX5RmMVI436s4fHnFL5Lbf7ZFu9QCfXnQi BmYgPvB6m+1WlpeF9YXQd80= =SsIF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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