#! /bin/bash # # original from # @(#) lowercase.ksh 1.0 92/10/08 # 92/10/08 john h. dubois iii (john@armory.com) # # conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey Usage="Usage: $name file ..." phelp() { echo "$name: change filenames to lower case. $Usage Each file is moved to a name with the same directory component, if any, and with a filename component that is the same as the original but with any upper case letters changed to lower case." } name=${0##*/} while getopts "h" opt; do case "$opt" in h) phelp; exit 0;; *) echo "$Usage" 1>&2; exit 2;; esac done shift $((OPTIND - 1)) for file; do filename=${file##*/} case "$file" in */*) dirname=${file%/*} ;; *) dirname=. ;; esac nf=$(echo $filename | tr A-Z a-z) newname="${dirname}/${nf}" if [ "$nf" != "$filename" ]; then mv "$file" "$newname" echo "$file -> $newname" else echo "$file not changed." fi done