Renaming Files

Often files need to be converted from uppercase to lowercase. Sometimes this is a side effect of moving from case-insensitive file systems to case-sensitive ones.

Here's a quick shell command that will convert everything in the current directory from uppercase to lowercase.

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

From http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040510-newsletter.xml