On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 02:57, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:20:17:06:26-0400] scribed: > > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > > which does...nothing. > > > > #!/bin/sh > > for file in $* > > do > > if [ -f $file ] > > then > > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > > if [ $file != $ucfile ] > > then > > mv -i $file $ucfile > > fi > > fi > > done > > > > Any tips? > > for mds in * > do > mv $mds `echo $mds | tr [:lower:] [:upper:]` > done > > for mds in * > do > mv $mds `echo $mds | tr a-z A-Z` > done
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