On Monday 12 January 2004 11:38 pm, Charlie wrote: ->I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k ->partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter ->and I want to rename them all to all lower case. -> ->Example: rename Documents to documents -> ->Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to do all these one at a time. -> ->Thanks,
Hi Charlie. Just cp the files to where you need them, then while you are in that directory from a shell, type: for i in *[A-Z]* Now you at a > prompt. Type do mv $i `echo $i |tr "A-Z" "a-z"` (note those are ` not ' , located below your tilde key) and finally: done Hope this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark< >Lord \/
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