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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:11:19 +0500
From: "Jeff Laine" <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>
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On 05/01/2008, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
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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
>

Thanks! It was simple after all. Doh, I've never heard about "tr" before.

-- 
--Jeff--