Filenames -- converting

[Earl H. Kinmonth]

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.
>
> Any ideas will be appreciated.
>
> Steve Berger
>
> srb at lanl.gov

There are many ways you can do this.  The one given below works.  It
is not necessarily "efficient" except that it took me about 1 second
to think it through.

for i in *
do
T=`echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]`
mv $i $T
done

If you want to do it with sed, look at the "y" command.

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