[olug] Unix Tip: ANOTHER RENAMING UPPER TO LOWER

[Ryan O'Rourke]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 18:05, Unix Guru Universe wrote:

> ANOTHER RENAMING UPPER TO LOWER
> 
> A shorter method for renaming 
> all files in a unix directory
> from upper to lower case.
> 
> ##############################
> for file in *
> do
>   mv $file `echo $file | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` 2>/dev/null
> done
> ##############################

There's a great little tool called "chcase" that install on all my Linux
boxes for this purpose. 
http://www.blemished.net/chcase.html

-- Ryan