01-10-2006
Converting file names to upper case
Hi all,
I am trying to rename all my files in a directory to their upper case counterparts .... I want to do this in a single command and not through shell script ... I started off thinking it wud be simple but got stuck up in middle since tr does not work the way i thought ...
This is what i tried ...
ls | xargs -l1 -t -i mv {} `echo {} | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
Here tr does not seem to do any work and just returns the file name as such .. So in effect i am renaming a file to that name itself ...
mv try.cc try.cc
mv: try.cc and try.cc are identical
mv typescript typescript
mv: typescript and typescript are identical
Why is this happening ?? And can anyone suggest me a solution
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