This script will change all uppercase filenames to lowercase in the current
directory. The script makes the mv command interactive which will prompt
before overwriting existing filenames.
for i in * ; do [ -f $i ] && mv -i $i `echo $i | tr '[A-Z' '[a-z]' `; done;
Hope this helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff" <jdavis70@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:07 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Change case of filenames
> 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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