On Friday 29 April 2005 09:39 am, David Niemi wrote:
> I am running a fortran program which requires all input file names to be
> uppercase. As things were originally done in Windo$e all the filenames
> are mixed case (with numbers).
>
> Searching around I came across the "tr" command, but my difficulty comes
> in trying to use this from the command line (or even in a bash script).
>
> mv * | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
>
> Does not work as mv requires a directory for the objective with multiple
> files. All of the scripts that I have seen are mainly for changing the
> case of text in a text file so wouldn't work for me.
>
> So, how would I do this?
find . -type f -exec tr [a-z] [A-Z] {} \;
should work
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