Re: [Sheflug] Renaming files

[Matthew Palmer <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Richard Davies wrote:

> is there an easy way to change all file names in a directory tree from 
> lowercase to uppercase.
> 
> There are 5300 files in 64 directories.
> Typical file name being 576b54.gif and this needs to be changed to 576B54.GIF

for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`; done

Will do the trick, I think.


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