Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to get this bash script working which converts filenames from >UPPER to lowercase. > >for x in *; do mv $x 'echo $x|tr [A-Z][a-z]'; done; > >It comes back with 'when moving multiple files, last argument must be a >directory.' I thought this was a loop, so how come it moves multiple files?
People have already suggested variants on this: for x in *; do mv $x `echo $x | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done You could also install the mmv package and try this instead: mmv '*' '#l1' ... or this: mmv \* \#l1 ... depending on what quoting style you prefer. Using backquotes allows you to do more general transformations, though. You might also try rename, which comes with the perl-5.005 package. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
