changing lc to uc file names

Joel Spolsky spolsky-joel at CS.YALE.EDU
Sun Nov 26 13:53:52 AEST 1989


In article <3764 at hydra.gatech.EDU> ccsupos at prism.gatech.EDU (SCHREIBER, O. A.) writes:
|I would like to change  a collection of file names from
|lower case to upper case.

in most implementations of csh this works:

% foreach i ( * )
?    mv $i `echo $i | tr a-z A-Z`
? end

Your mileage may vary, esp. if your version of tr doesn't grok "a-z".

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