batch rename

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Shantanoo Mahajan wrote:
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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.
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>>> 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?
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>> This assumes tcsh:
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>> foreach i (`ls [A-Z][a-z]*`) mv $i `echo $i|tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'` end
>>>
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> tr will decapitalize all the letters in the string.
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You can replace it with the following sed then sed s/^[A-Z]/[a-z]/


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