Re: [newbie] Is there a 'Nix command for...

2000-09-16 Thread Paul

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, flupke wrote:

>  for i in *[A-Z]* ; do mv $i `echo $i |tr "A-Z" "a-z"` ; done

This helped me get my "for if grep" problem soved! Yay!
Thanks!!

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Is there a 'Nix command for...

2000-09-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall

flupke wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> 
> > Is there a 'Nix command that will change filenames in a directory from UPPER
> > case to all lowercase?
> 
> This will lowercase all your filenames :
> 
>   for i in *[A-Z]* ; do mv $i `echo $i |tr "A-Z" "a-z"` ; done
> 
> PS : note that the single quotes are reversed...
> 
> HTH
> Flupke
> 
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Flupke! Thank you, thank you, thank you! (bowing down in semi-awe!) ;-)))

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Re: [newbie] Is there a 'Nix command for...

2000-09-14 Thread flupke

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote:

> Is there a 'Nix command that will change filenames in a directory from UPPER
> case to all lowercase?

This will lowercase all your filenames :

  for i in *[A-Z]* ; do mv $i `echo $i |tr "A-Z" "a-z"` ; done

PS : note that the single quotes are reversed...

HTH
Flupke

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[newbie] Is there a 'Nix command for...

2000-09-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall

Is there a 'Nix command that will change filenames in a directory from UPPER
case to all lowercase?

Thanks much!

PS I've got "Linux for Dummies" but this dummy couldn't find anything like that
in there... ;-)

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