Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:22:33 +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: <0607A2F6-E81D-4B12-85E3-2CF46CBFE2C9@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <477F27AE.4040807@gmail.com> References: <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com> <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com> <5DFF4360-3A4A-44B7-A85C-FD6CBF3930BA@gmail.com> <477F27AE.4040807@gmail.com>
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On 05-Jan-08, at 12:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----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]/ > In bash shell: $ echo AsD | sed s/^[A-Z]/[a-z]/ [a-z]sD I thought about this while sending earlier reply, but was unable to get it working properly. regards, shantanoo
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