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Re: bash script



Hi,

Vani R. typed:
> I have around 120 files in a directory whose names are in uppercase
> letters. I want to change all these filenames to lowercase letters. I
> can't change it manually. I want to write a script to do the same. How
> do i do that? I have .c and .h files in the directory.
> Eg: TEST.C has to be converted to test.c

Try this:

for i in *; do mv $i $(echo $i | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'); done

HTH..

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