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Old August 10th, 2004, 02:23 AM
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hi there.. i just want to create a script that iwll rename file.
when am renaming if the file has any capital letter it should change it to small letter.

ex: rename aBcd NN9x.Z
-the rename is the name of the script file..it will rename the aBcd to abcd and NN9x.Z to nn9x.z .. how do u do this.. ..let me konw please. thank you very much.
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Old August 10th, 2004, 11:01 AM
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Code:
mv $file `echo $file| tr -s '[:upper:]'  '[:lower:]' `

tr changes the case. mv renames the file.
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Old August 10th, 2004, 02:08 PM
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jim it's dangerous....
newname=`echo $file| tr -s '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
this is OK
...
[ -f $newname ] && echo $newname still exists && continue
mv $file $newname
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Old August 11th, 2004, 09:14 AM
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What you mean is that it will clobber existing files - correct.
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