On Friday, Apr 29th 2005 at 08:51 -0500, quoth esm@xxxxxxxxx: =>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:39:27AM -0400, 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$e all the filenames =>> are mixed case (with numbers). => =>( for i in *; do mv "$i" "`echo $i | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`"; done ) => But why run the command inside of a subshell? That's all that parens do. If you need grouping (which you do not here) and you don't need to be in a subshell, then just use braces. -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ Do you have neighbors who are not frambors?
