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Old 06-28-2005
rahul123_libra rahul123_libra is offline
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Use awk
for old_name in `ls -l path_to_dir/*jpg`
do
new_name=`awk -F"-" 'BEGIN { OFS="-"} {$3=toupper($3);print $0}' $old_name`
mv $old_name $new_name
done
Last edited by rahul123_libra; 06-28-2005 at 10:37 AM..