rename works much better.
from the rename man page:
To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
Syd
On Sunday 07 December 2003 02:48, you wrote:
> 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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