batch rename

Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 22:01:58 PST 2008


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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
>
>
> TIA
>


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