Filenames -- converting

Robert B Carroll conan at vax1.acs.udel.EDU
Fri Jun 9 12:13:33 AEST 1989


In article <25879 at beta.lanl.gov> srb at beta.UUCP ( Steve Berger ) writes:
>
> I have a directory with all the filenames in Uppercase letters.
> I'd like to move them all to lowercase.
>
> Is there an easy way to do that?  I figure there must be a way using
> sed  or something, but I haven't figured it out yet, and I don't want to
> go thru and  use  mv to move each file name, that will take me forever.
>
fat chance of changing the name of a file unless you either copy it
or 'mv' it. doing a 'mv' doesn't take to much time.
unless you hack around with the inode table and stuff.
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