On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> To lowercase the names: > > $ for file in *HTM; do mv $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z`; done > > then you can change the extension from .htm to .html > > The trick aboave was embedding a shell command within `backtics`. > It get executed before the command is evaluated. e.g. > > $ echo TESTING | tr A-Z a-z > testing > > (See also the `mmv' command in the mmv package for another way to > do these things). > > Peter OK, it seems to be working. I did it by copying them (so that the originals are there as well, because I have got those files on my hd already...): for file in NODE*; do cp $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z`; done Thanks a lot. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
