lowly working my way through
man bash now, using mcedit as editor cause of the color coding. Cheerio,
--hans
At 05:13 PM 4/2/00 +0200, Hans 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-
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
Hans writes:
> for x in *; do mv $x 'echo $x|tr [A-Z][a-z]'; done;
> ...
> Any ideas how to get this working?
Use the right kind of single quotes and seperate the arguments to tr with a
space.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Hans 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;
wrong kind of quotes:
#! /bin/sh
for x in *
do
mv
On Sunday, 02 April 2000 at 17:13, Hans 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, l
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 17:13:33 +0200, Hans wrote:
> for x in *; do mv $x 'echo $x|tr [A-Z][a-z]'; done;
Use
for x in *; do mv $x `echo $x | tr '[A-Z][a-z]'`; done
Note the backticks and the quoting of the square brackets (to prevent them
from being interpreted by the shell as globbing p
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 com
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