Unix Tip #4404- April 2, 2023


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ANOTHER RENAMING UPPER TO LOWER


A shorter method for renaming
all files in a unix directory
from upper to lower case.

##############################
for file in *
do
mv $file `echo $file | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` 2>/dev/null
done
##############################

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