Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:00:11 +0530 From: Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: batch rename Message-ID: <5DFF4360-3A4A-44B7-A85C-FD6CBF3930BA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com> References: <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com> <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com>
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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. regards, shantanoo
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