Change case of all files in a directory
Here’s an easy way change the names of all files in a directory from upper to lower case (note that we are using ls -1 and not ls -l in this example): user@server:~/test$ ls -1 FIVE FOUR ONE THREE TWO user@server:~/test$ for file in `ls -1` ; do newfile=`echo $file | tr .A-Z. .a-z.` ; mv $file $newfile ; done user@server:~/test$ ls -1 five four one three two To invert the process, simply change reverse the options passed to the ‘tr’ command like this:...