On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "drew" == drew cohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> drew> How do I rename all files in a directory matching the
> drew> pattern *.JPG to *.jpg in a bash shell script? Thanks to
> drew> you guys I can check for the existence of jpgs in a
> drew> directory, but can't seem get 'mv' to rename them for me
> drew> (always complains that the last argument must be a
> drew> directory).
>
> Still another way:
>
> for i in *.JPG
> do
> mv $i `basename $i .JPG`.jpg
> done
Simplest alternative without sub-shell nor special command:
for i in *.JPG
do
mv $i ${i%\.JPG}.jpg
done
It works with any reasonable shell ash/bash/dash/... and uses only mv command.
Cheers :)
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