Re: Converting filenames to lowercase in a directory

[mike808 <mike808@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Monday 24 June 2002 02:00 am, you wrote:
> On Sunday 23 June 2002 11:39 pm, you wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to convert all of the filenames in a given
> > directory to lowercase?
>
> find . -type f|while read f; do f2=`echo $f|tr a-z a-z`;mv '$f' '$f2';done

Doh!
Try this instead if you don't want to traipse through all of the 
subdirectories...

 find . -type f -maxdepth 1|while read f; do f2=`echo $f|tr a-z a-z`;mv '$f' 
'$f2';done

Mike808/
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