Console Command Examples
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Linux specific console command examples
Examples from other pages included. References also included. This document is in the form of "what you want to do" and "how to do it" taken from our old Linux forum with questions from linux users.
change file case UPPERCASE to lowercase in the same directory
The easiest way is this simple command which uses rename:
rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *
Another example using tr:
for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`; done
Shell script example from the old Advanced Shell Operations page
for FILE in * # use mv -i to avoid overwriting files do # uses the tr command to convert case mv -i "$FILE" `echo "$FILE" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` 2> /dev/null done
Related Pages
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- Console Command Examples
- Advanced Shell Operations
- Console Command Reference
- How Do I: A Linux Q&A