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Agent007:
Hi all,

Is it possible to convert multiple filenames in a directory to lowercase? how?

thanks,
007

Faust:
Try a shell script.  I'm guessing it would involve "for file in $1" and tr, but I'm not sure.  I would like to hear how you do it because I'm interested in a similar thing.  Also converting spaces to underscores would be good too.  ;)

Pantso:
Can you believe that I had a similar question myself? I think that a shell script would propably do the job as Faust wrote, but I really suck at shell scripting.   :rolleyes:  

So, if anyone has an answer to this, could you please share it with us?  

Stryker:

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Try a shell script.  I'm guessing it would involve "for file in $1" and tr, but I'm not sure.  I would like to hear how you do it because I'm interested in a similar thing.  Also converting spaces to underscores would be good too.   ;)  
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for the underscore i believe something like:
ls | while read item; do mv "$item" `echo "$item" | sed 's/\ /_/g'`; done

might want to double check on the sed part, s and g might need to be reversed. it's been a while but that should work. for subdirectories you could do find instead of ls

solo:

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:-D

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