Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:11:19 +0500 From: "Jeff Laine" <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: batch rename Message-ID: <2b98f2f70801042211o40e978efqe7c5c6c9f16e241a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com> References: <2b98f2f70801042134x1af4f721s877677afde7151f5@mail.gmail.com> <477F1D54.3040807@gmail.com>
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On 05/01/2008, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jeff Laine wrote: > > Hi to all. > > > > My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize > > starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple > > but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some > > shell-script? > > This assumes tcsh: > > foreach i (`ls [A-Z][a-z]*`) > mv $i `echo $i|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` > end > Thanks! It was simple after all. Doh, I've never heard about "tr" before. -- --Jeff--
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