Ok, I know its a pretty lame script, but it was the first one I wrote
for Intro to Unix at HCC. It's designed to do just what you are
looking for; changing filenames to lowercase from uppercase. Hope it
helps, or gets you on the right path for your own.
Thor
#!/bin/bash
# Script for changing file names from upper to lowercase.
# Written by Thor Gould (c) 2003 for Intro to Unix (Mr. Pollock)
echo "Enter filename to capitalize: "
read fname
mv "$fname" `echo "$fname" | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
jeff wrote:
> I downloaded an ebook today which has a problem. The filenames are all
> uppercase but the TOC page and the index.htm links are specifying that
> filename in lowercase, and with Linux being case sensitive obviously the
> file is not found. Is there an easy and quick way to change all the 150+
> filenames (they are all html and jpg files) in that directory from
> uppercase to lowercase?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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