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Old 05-24-2009
need help with rename
hi guys i am writing a script to change the filename which is enterered as input to lower case letter even if one letter is upper case i have to change it to lower case
i get the input and use

sed comand should i use like that

sed/s/a-z/A-Z/d

will it be like that can u please help me
# 2  
Old 05-24-2009
Code:
echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'

or

Code:
echo $name | sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/'


-Devaraj Takhellambam
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Old 05-24-2009
Code:
awk  -v input=$input ''BEGIN{ print tolower(input)}'

# 4  
Old 05-24-2009
Code:
echo "enter name"
read name
echo original input is $name
newname=$( echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
echo "Input New using Tr command is: $newname"
newname2=$( echo $name | sed 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/')
echo "Input new using SED is : $newname2"


-Devaraj Takhellambam
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Old 05-24-2009
hi
you are the best i really appreciate it thank you its giving me error at this point though
newname=$( echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
# 6  
Old 05-24-2009
hi
one more question as well how can i convert space in a filename to _ sign
# 7  
Old 05-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by farhan_t49
you are the best i really appreciate it thank you its giving me error at this point though
newname=$( echo $name | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
What is the error you are getting?
 
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