> I'm using Debian .96 and have a need to change all the files in a
> directory from uppercase to lowercase (ftp'ed from DOS). Is there a
> quick method or command to do this?
There is a command called 'rename' that comes with perl. You can find
it as:
/usr/doc/examples/perl/rename.gz
This is as found under debian 1.1. Your milage may vary, so I'll
include the script here.
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#! /usr/bin/perl
# Usage: rename perlexpr [files]
($op = shift) || die "Usage: rename perlexpr [filenames]\n";
if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {
@ARGV = <STDIN>;
chop(@ARGV);
}
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}
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With this, you can do what you want by typing:
rename tr/A-Z/a-z/ *
Perhaps the perl package could install this useful utility directly into
/usr/bin?
Brian
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