is there a lowercase console command?

[simcon]

Hi,

 

Is there a lowercase console command? I have just copied 1000s of files across from a DVD and all the filenames are uppercase and I want them lowercase.

 

Cheers.

[ramfree17]

you are looking for the tr command. the man page should be provide enough info about its usage. i would do it but i am not on a *nix system at the moment but its something like

 echo "STRING" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

 

:)

 

ciao!

[simcon]

Thanks ramfree17 :)

 

I made a function and placed it into my .bashrc file so it's always available:-

tolower ()
{
   echo "Convert all filenames within this folder to lowercase? [yes|no]";
   read yn;
   if test "$yn" = yes; then
       for file in *;
       do
           mv -v -i $file $(echo $file | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]');
       done;
   fi
}

I've tested it with a few files in a folder, some duplicate but different case and it works fine. Will prompt on overwrites.

 

Cheers.

[DOlson]

That might be a cool thing to put in the tips section of the board. Just my opinion.