On Monday 12 January 2004 22:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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 >
Well this seems to have done the first level folders ok, but did not rename rename any of the subfolders. Is there a way to make this work recursively?
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