batch rename

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

On 05-Jan-08, at 12:16 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:

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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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In bash shell:

$ echo AsD | sed s/^[A-Z]/[a-z]/
[a-z]sD


I thought about this while sending earlier reply, but was unable to
get it working properly.

regards,
shantanoo