HELP converting filenames!

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <9754 at cadnetix.COM> by rusty at cadnetix.COM (Rusty Carruth):
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| In article <5003 at omepd.UUCP> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
| >In article <9234 at pyr.gatech.EDU>, david at pyr (David Brown) writes:
| >| Hiya.  I have a friend who has about 200 files in a directory that are all
| >| upper case.  They are data files that need to be in lower case, because
| >| his brain-dead program won't recognize upper case letters.  
| >
| <solution requiring 'tr'>
| 
| First, go to the directory of interest and do 'ls -1 > doit'.
| Chmod 777 doit. Now, go edit 'doit' (for all you emacs haters
| out there, sorry but emacs seems to work better for what I'm about
| to suggest than does vi) and make a macro (sorry folks, this
| trick will pretty much require emacs) which adds a space or two
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Nonsense.

vi:	:1,$s/.*/mv & &/
emacs:	M-X replace-regexp RET ^.*$ RET mv \& \& RET

You did, however, forget to switch the case on the second copy.

My usual way of doing it:

ls | sed 'h;y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/;x;G;s/\n/ /;s/^/mv /' | sh

(Usually, I do this twice, the first time with "echo" instead of "mv", so I
can make sure I didn't blow it.  I just tested this, BTW; it works fine under
Xenix.  Other OSes may vary, but it should work under standard System V's.)

++Brandon
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