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From: Shantanoo Mahajan <shantanoo@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:00:11 +0530
To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: batch rename
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On 05-Jan-08, at 11:31 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

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> 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
>>

tr will decapitalize all the letters in the string.

regards,
shantanoo