On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David Niemi wrote: > > 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). > On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 14:45 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > You could use a script like this one: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > for f in * > > do > > F="`echo $f | tr a-z A-Z`" > > echo Renaming \"$f\" to \"$F\" > > mv "$f" "$F" > > done > > Thanks for all the VERY FAST responses everyone. As just about all > the responses were variants of the same thing I'll be going with > Paul's suggestion, I was about 1/2 way there in my feeble attempts > at writing a bash script for this. I'll probably spruce it up a bit > for more general usage as a general script to change case of file > names. another solution is to just not re-invent the wheel: http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/css-cameronsimpsonsscripts/ rday
