[ale] quick way to rename all files ?

[Wandered Inn]

Gary MacKay wrote:
> 
> Is there a quick way to rename all files in a directory to lower case?
> Same filename, just rip through and make sure they are all lowercase.

for fn in *;do
	if [ -f $fn ]; then mv $fn $(echo $fn|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'); fi
done

You might want to make sure a file with the new name doesn't already
exit though:

for fn in FOO;do
	nfn=$(echo $fn|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
	if [ ! -f $nfn ] && [ -f $fn ]; then mv $fn $nfn; fi
done

> 
> - Gary
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